GS PAPER – IV

Q 1.Plato’s Guardians were expected to be men of wisdom and empathy. Elaborate.
Q 2.“Civil Service must remain politically neutral and professionally competent. It must aim to maintain the highest standards of personal integrity and probity”. Evaluate the level of probity in the Indian Civil Services.
Q 3.“We have been running and galloping on the path of administrative reforms, but the distance covered has been negligible.” Do you agree?
Q 4.Good governance must be founded on moral virtues ensuring stability and harmony. Discuss crucial issues affecting its foundation.
Q 5.Explain the significance of Vivekanand’s dictum, “your mind to God and hand to work.”
Q 6.“Soft state is only a euphemism for ineffective governance”. Suggest certain practical measures to mitigate corruption in the governance system.
Q 7.Corporate Governance and Good Governance are allied approaches to the creation of a new moral order. Discuss in detail.
Q 8.The purpose of a government is to make it easy for people to do good and difficult to do evil. Evaluate the role of e-Governance in this context.
Q 9.In Western Philosophy, there are 3 eminent schools of ethics.
(a) First holds that virtues are dispositions to act in ways that benefit the possessor of these virtues.
(b) Second makes the concept of duty central to morality.
(c) Third asserts that the guiding principle of conduct should be the greatest benefit of the greatest number.
Discuss their contemporary significance in administrative ethics.
Q 10.“No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the higher standards of ethical behaviour.” Evaluate this statement in dynamics of corruption.
Q 11.What is the significance of emotional intelligence in the field of administrative ethics.
Q 12.“Power corrupts and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely”. Would the enforcement of code of ethics and conduct ensure legitimate use of power?
Q 13.Evolve a credible strategy for tackling corruption considering the dynamics of corruption.
Q 14.Ethics is grounded in the notion of responsibility and accountability. Discuss.
Q 15.Discuss the rationale of Sevottam Model. How will it improve quality of public service.
Q 16.How will New Companies Act, 2013 strengthen the Strategies of Ethics Management in Corporate Governance.
Q 17.Attitudes and behaviour share a consistent relationship”. Do you agree?
Q 18.Recently Jan Swasthya Abhiyan suggested changes in the Rules of Clinical Establishment Act 2010. Explain can how these changes ensure patients’ rights charter and an effective grievance – redressal mechanism.
Q 19.“The developed countries had their ideas and discussion focused on everything but public funding.” Discuss this statement in content of International Ethics and funding.
Q 20.Outline the main provisions of the Right of citizens for Time Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redressal of their Grievances.

Q 1.“The Independent Directors have to do moral policing in a company”. Discuss.
Q 2.Without containing corruption, we cannot conceive of sustainable socio-economic development. Comment.
Q 3.Public administrator the “Guardians” of the administrative state. Elaborate.
Q 4.The movement of Good Governance lays stress on the ethical and moral conduct of administrators. How will it help in achieving administrative effectiveness?
Q 5.“The primary purpose of corporate leadership is to create wealth legally and ethically.” Discuss this statement in context of New Companies Act, 2013.
Q 6.Developed countries had promised to drum up an annual stream of $100 billion starting 2020. But proper countries are demanding a clear road map of how the developed countries will ratchet up their funding support. Discuss their issue in context of international ethics and funding.

Write short notes on following:

Q 1.Bureaupathology
Q 2.Maxim of integrity
Q 3.Maxim of legality and rationality
Q 4.Sanskritization of corruption
Q 5.Components of attitudes
Q 6.3 processes of social influence
Q 7.Rights based framework in India
Q 8.CVC and CBI
Q 9.Recent status of Lok Pal Bill
Q 10.Protection to whistleblowers
Q 11.Major recommendation of Kumar Manglam Birla Committee Report
Q 12.Prohibition of Benami Transactions
Q 13.Buddhist Ethics
Q 14.Kohlberg’s 3 levels of morality
Q 15.Plato’s cardinal virtues
Q 16.Deontological ethics
Q 17.Consequentialist ethics
Q 18.Maxim of Fusion
Q 19.Principles of citizen charter
Q 20.Golden Mean Doctrine
Q 21.Recommendations of Santhanam Committee
Q 22.Cognitive Dissonance
Q 23.Relationship between moral and political attitudes
Q 24.Integrity Pacts
Q 25.Value expressive functions
Q 26.Difference between IQ and EQ
Q 27.Work culture
Q 28.Freedom of information
Q 29.Ethics of Globalization
Q 30.Difference between morality, values & ethics