COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION

March 26, 2022

MP207
Public Personnel Administration & Human Resource Development

NAME OF EXAMINEE: _____________________________________________

In/Off-Campus Area: (Example: Samar)_______________________________

General Direction:
1. Read and reread the direction below.
2. Time frame: 1:30-3:30pm.
3. Write your answers in a separate paper (MS Word Format). Your answer sheet shall
contain only the following: the subject (MPA207), your full name, and your answers to the
four questions below.
4. Read the copy of the OCE guidelines before, during, and after taking the
examination.
5. Avoid PLAGIARISM.
6. Submit your answers to oce.pubadm2022@gmail.com with your file name
(Example: BRITO_ULYSSES_MPA207) between 3:30-3:45 pm today.
7. After submission, re-check that you have, indeed, sent your paper to
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8. Wait for my confirmation within an hour.
9. Sign out in your email address once you received my confirmation.

Direction: Identify/Discuss/Explain the following in not less than 200 words per question. Be
guided by the Rubrics.

1. How do politics affect public personnel administration?

2. The public sector HR Managers have an obligation to effectively manage a diverse

workforce. Discuss why this is so important in the public sector, the value of diversity for
an organization, and how managing diversity and complying with anti-discrimination
laws are not the same.

3. Case Analysis: When you joined the agency as Human Resource Manager, you found out
that absenteeism was out of control, causing problems to the management. Costs were
rising, productivity was falling, and an unfair added work was being placed on
employees who come to work every day. The records showed that about 15 percent of
the employees are often absent. The agency has no clear-cut attendance control policy,
nor was there a formal policy to discipline workers for excessive absences. As the HR
 manager, what would you do to resolve the problems? What steps will you undertake to
formulate a policy to deal with these problems? What kind of policy will be developed
to prevent employee absenteeism and increase productivity?
4. With relevant examples, differentiate mentoring with coaching in relation to their
application in modern organizations.

GOOD LUCK!