Discussion
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| (a) Authority, Legitimacy and Social Development | (1) Herbert Simon |
| (b) A critique of US administrative system | (2) Frederick Riggs |
| (c) Organization as a human enterprise seeking internal and external equilibrium | (3) Max Weber |
| (d) Bureaucracy and the social system | (4) Lyndall Urwick |
Answer: C
The key gives a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2.
Max Weber wrote on authority and its legitimacy (legal-rational, traditional and charismatic) and on social development, so (a) goes with Weber. Herbert Simon's account of organisation as a system of decisions kept in balance between inducements and contributions fits (c). Fred Riggs worked on bureaucracy in its social setting in developing societies, as in his work on the prismatic society, so (d) goes with Riggs. That leaves (b), a critique of the US administrative system, with Lyndall Urwick.
I could not trace each line of List I to a single named work, so (c) and (b) rest on this reading of the authors and on elimination. Only the key's code gives Weber for (a), Simon for (c) and Riggs for (d) together, and no other code does.
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