BSCS Senior Officer Exam flashcards

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Politics-administration dichotomy

The doctrine associated with Woodrow Wilson holding that politics sets policy while administration carries it out neutrally and efficiently, separating elected policymakers from appointed career administrators.

Public trust doctrine

The constitutional principle in Article XI, Section 1 that public office is a public trust, so officers must serve with responsibility, integrity, loyalty, and efficiency and remain accountable to the people.

Devolution under RA 7160

The transfer of basic services and regulatory functions from the national government to local government units, accompanied by an internal revenue allotment share and increased local autonomy and accountability.

New Public Management

A reform movement emphasizing market mechanisms, managerial autonomy, performance measurement, and customer orientation in government, treating citizens as clients and results as the measure of success.

Bill of Rights due process

Article III, Section 1 guarantees that no person is deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor denied equal protection of the laws.

Civil Service Commission mandate

The independent constitutional commission that serves as the central personnel agency, administering the civil service, promulgating rules, and deciding administrative disciplinary cases on appeal.

Sufficient standard rule

The requirement that a law delegating power to an administrative body must set a sufficient standard or policy to guide discretion and prevent abdication of legislative power.

Substantial evidence standard

The quantum of evidence required in administrative disciplinary cases, meaning such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.

Expectancy theory

Vroom's motivation model in which effort leads to performance (expectancy), performance leads to outcomes (instrumentality), and outcomes are valued (valence); motivation is their product.

Herzberg two-factor theory

Motivation theory distinguishing hygiene factors such as salary and working conditions, which prevent dissatisfaction, from motivators such as achievement and recognition, which produce satisfaction.

Strategic Performance Management System

The Civil Service Commission's performance framework that cascades organizational goals to individual targets and links performance ratings to rewards, development, and accountability.

Schein culture levels

Edgar Schein's model of organizational culture with three levels: visible artifacts, espoused values, and underlying basic assumptions that drive behavior.

Budget cycle phases

The four recurring stages of public budgeting: preparation by the executive, legislation by Congress, execution by agencies, and accountability through audit and evaluation.

Zero-based budgeting

A budgeting method requiring each expenditure to be justified from a zero base rather than from the prior year's level, forcing periodic review of all programs.

Belgica v. Ochoa doctrine

The 2013 Supreme Court ruling declaring the pork barrel system unconstitutional because it violated separation of powers and accountability by letting legislators control post-enactment spending.

Fiscal deficit

The excess of total government expenditures over total revenues in a given period, financed through borrowing and affecting the national debt stock.

Kingdon policy window

The brief opportunity when the problem, policy, and politics streams converge, allowing a policy entrepreneur to push a prepared solution onto the government agenda.

Logic model components

The sequence linking inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts, together with assumptions, used to plan and evaluate a program's theory of change.

Cost-benefit analysis

An appraisal method that monetizes and discounts a project's benefits and costs; a positive net present value or a benefit-cost ratio above one supports the project.

Formative versus summative evaluation

Formative evaluation occurs during implementation to improve the program; summative evaluation occurs at completion to judge overall merit, worth, and impact.

Central limit theorem

The principle that the sampling distribution of the sample mean approaches a normal distribution as sample size increases, regardless of the population's shape.

Type I and Type II errors

Type I error rejects a true null hypothesis at significance level alpha; Type II error fails to reject a false null hypothesis, with beta the error rate.

Coefficient of determination

The statistic r-squared, representing the proportion of variance in the dependent variable explained by the independent variable or variables in a regression model.

Probability versus non-probability sampling

Probability sampling gives every element a known chance of selection and supports inference; non-probability sampling relies on judgment or convenience and limits generalization.

RA 6713 eight norms

The Code of Conduct for public officials enumerates commitment to public interest, professionalism, justness and sincerity, political neutrality, responsiveness, nationalism, commitment to democracy, and simple living.

SALN filing deadlines

Under RA 6713, the Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth is filed within 30 days of assuming office, every year on or before April 30, and within 30 days of leaving office.

RA 11032 processing times

The Ease of Doing Business Act sets maximum processing periods of three working days for simple transactions, seven for complex ones, and twenty for highly technical ones.

Communication noise

Any physical, semantic, psychological, or organizational interference that distorts or blocks a message between sender and receiver and reduces communication effectiveness.

Data Privacy Act rights

RA 10173 grants data subjects the rights to be informed, object, access, rectify, erase or block, claim damages, and data portability regarding their personal information.

CIA triad

The three core information security goals: confidentiality of access, integrity of data accuracy, and availability of systems and information when needed.

Cybercrime Prevention Act

RA 10175 penalizes offenses including illegal access, illegal interception, data interference, identity theft, and cybersquatting, and provides for investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes.

Contrapositive equivalence

The conditional statement if P then Q is logically equivalent to if not Q then not P, making the contrapositive a valid form of inference in deductive reasoning.