Jharkhand PSC Prelim Exam 18-Dec-2016 Solved Paper

(1) Herbert Simon criticised narrowness of the traditional approach and the ‘principles’of administration and calls them proverbs and myths. He says that when research has been done, when a basic vocabulary to the satisfaction of many scholars has been developed,when decision making has been analysed, when limits to rationality imposed by restricting abilities, habits,values and knowledge have been explored fully – then and only then – it may be possible to have valid principles of administration and know-how to apply them.