General Studies · New Public Management
Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): Assertion (A): New Public Management (NPM) is anti-positivist, anti-technical, and anti-hierarchical. Reason (R): New Public Administration (NPA), rather than NPM, lays emphasis on relevance, social equity, and humanistic values in public interest. In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer using the codes given below:
- 1Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
- 2Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
- 3(A) is true, but (R) is false
- 4(A) is false, but (R) is true✓
Correct answer
(A) is false, but (R) is true
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