A large, complex administrative structure that handles the everyday business of an organization
All matters no directly connected to the realm of foreign affairs
Having to do with powers that are to some extent legislative
The head of the Department of Justice
The 12-month period use by a government and the business world for its record-keeping, budgeting, revenue-collecting, and other financial management purposes
What building is considered to be the main center of operations for the federal bureaucracy?
The Office of Homeland Security was recently created to handle which major issue?
What term is given to the Executive Office of the President because it is a complex organization with several separate organizations?
Which executive office is responsible for advising the president on all domestic, foreign, and military affairs for the country?
What office is responsible for carrying out the day to day operations of the White House Office?
Which of the following not a main consideration a president makes when they appoint someone to be a secretary of a department? (Age, Ethnicity, Party affiliation, Qualification and Experience)
What is the main role of the Cabinet for the President?
How are the secretaries in the executive departments chosen?
Which one of the executive departments is not headed by a secretary?
Generally speaking, how are subunits structured within the federal government?
True or False? The independent agencies are still part of the 15 executive departments.
Give one way that Government Corporations are different from private enterprises.
These independent agencies were established Congress in order to carry out business-like activity.
A majority of independent agencies; organized like the Cabinet departments, but do not have Cabinet status.
Almost completely independent from Presidential control, these independent agencies regulate important aspects of the economy.
What term is given to an individual working within a bureaucracy?
What shape are bureaucracies structured similar to?
Which types of agencies serve a support function performing such tasks as advising, budgeting, purchasing, etc?
What title is given to the president as the head of the federal bureaucracy?
What three elements make up every bureaucratic system, including the federal government?
bureaucracy
domestic affairs
quasi-legislative
Attorney General
fiscal year
White House
Terrorism
'Umbrella' agency
National Security Council
Chief of Staff
Ethnicity
Advisory body (give advice)
Appointed by President; Approved by the Senate
Justice
Regionally; only a small percentage works in Washington D.C.
False
Purposes and functions determined by Congress; top officers appointed by POTUS; all public employees; financed by public funds.
Government Coporations
Independent Executive Agencies
Independent Regulatory Commissions
bureaucrat
Pyramid
Staff Agencies
Chief Executive
Hierarchical Organization, Job Specialization, and Formalized Rules
