PAP 2300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Toronto City, Total Quality Management, Treasury Board Secretariat
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Define and provide examples for the following terms. Objective and subjective responsibility: objective responsibility, involves responsibility to someone, or some collective body (accountability), and responsibility for certain tasks, subordinate personnel, and goal achievement (obligation, takes into consideration hierarchical structure of authority. Ex: regarding harper and the senate scandal, members of the office of. Prime minister were privy to inappropriate conduct pertaining to the allocation of public funds. Stephen harper is responsible because his subordinates were supposed to delineate any activity within his office. Chief of staff was working outside of his powers in gifting" mike duffy money to square up his expense discrepancies: it creates a concern for the quality of decisions. Canadian central agencies serve to coordinate line departments" but mostly to support the decision making activities of cabinet, with information and advice; relaying information to other departments; and ensuring consistency across departments. These include: department of finance, the privy council office, treasury board secretariat.