Among the most important differences in the respective working environments of public and private managers are, first, the “goldfish bowl” of publicity facing the public manager and, second, the public manager’s

a. ability to control subordinates’ careers.


b. ability to employ precise evaluation measures.


c. exclusive power to set agency goals.


d. having to operate under much tighter time constraints.


ANS: D

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