The Research Of Incentive Mechanism For University Teachers

The 21st century is a new era of information, science and technology, as well as economic globalization, political multi-polarization and cultural diversification. Being increasingly competitive and full of opportunities and challenges, this age features fast pace of life and rapid development, as the level of interdependency between different countries, universities and individuals is higher and the co-influence between them is greater. Under such circumstances, the development of society is all for the people and by the people and all these cannot get away from the exploitation of human potential, namely the effective stimulation for a person.The rapid development of science and technology has given extra prominence to the importance of higher education. Currently the innovative and high technology, characterized by information technology, biotechnology, new material technology and new energy technology, has driven human society to march towards intellectual economy times from the later industrial economy times. And the human society is stepping into a new period of intellectual economy times which relies on knowledge resources. With the advent of the intellectual economy age, the influence of higher education has infiltrated widely into almost all the fields that have an impact on the national core competitiveness and higher education itself has also become an important means to enhance the national core competence. The core competence of a country is determined by many factors, such as its strength in economy, politics, science and technology innovation, national defense and military affairs, culture and education and resources reserve, as well as its national cohesion, all of which have an underlying bearing on the development of higher education and talent resources. Just as Joseph Nye, a distinguished American scholar puts it:'There has never been a time in our history when knowledge is power as it is now and the country which leads the worldwide information revolution is more powerful than any other.'Therefore can we arrive at the conclusion that the human society is entering a new phase of intellectual economy times which relies on knowledge resources.As early as the 1980s, Comrade Deng Xiaoping has already had comprehensive review and strategic thinking about the status of education. He pointed out that:' Education should be oriented to the needs of modernization, globalization and the future.'The level of education, in particular higher education, has become a key indicator to evaluate the core competitiveness of a country. However, this kind of core competitiveness depends on the innovation ability of the institutions of higher learning. So what is the prerequisite to gain the core competitiveness of a university? When we refer to a university as a top one, then it is bound to possess such characteristics: world-class strategic planning, faculty, resources and management efficiency. And teacher resource, which plays the role of a leading core, is the most important factor among all these. Just like Mei Yiqi, a former president of the Tsinghua University, has once put it:'What makes a good university is the amount and quality of masters it boasts, instead of the amount and quality of buildings that stand on its campus.'It is can be seen from this remark that the qualification of teachers in a university determines its overall level. What's more, educational innovation is a continuous process that advances with the times. In this way, teachers, as the principal part in educational innovation, should be able to maintain sustainable self-motivation and self-renewal during their lifetime educational career. But the existing circumstances of universities, the managed and educational objects and the job content of teachers have undergone great changes and are faced with unprecedented challenges. Consequently, setting up a fair, rational and scientific incentive mechanism in order to bring the teachers' enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity into full play and to enhance management level and efficiency should be an important task of our concern. The construction of an incentive mechanism for university teachers is not only critical for the university's development but also is a key link for institutions of higher education to perform social mission.Through applying the theories in pedagogy, politics, institution, psychology, organizational behavior, administration, management, system science and many other subjects to specific researches, this paper synthesizes and analyzes the numerous layers of the incentive mechanism for university faculties in a multidisciplinary and multidimensional way to achieve unification between history and logic, rationalism and emotionalism, theory and practice.Based on the research achievements presented before both at home and abroad, this study probes into the internal driving forces and external influences, along with the structure of driving system, guidance system, performance system and control system of the mechanism. Closely related to the thought connotation, thinking method, theoretical features and meaning of the existing incentive theories and the practical situation of the reform and understanding of higher education in our country, this paper has done a great deal of work to systematically construct an incentive mechanism for university teachers in accordance with the reality of current higher education in China.The body of this paper, about 160 thousand words, is divided into six chapters:Chapter one is introduction. This part focuses on the background, current research state and scientific approach of the incentive mechanism for university teachers.Competition in the 21st century is competition in comprehensive national power. And as talents are playing an increasingly important role in today's world, competition in talents is becoming more and more fierce. Bearing the noble mission of cultivating builders and successors for the socialist cause, higher education, especially university teachers, plays a vital role in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Our gaps and problems are pointed out by comparing the research conditions of incentive at all times and in all countries. It is essential to respect the basic needs of teachers as they have the same demand for as ordinary people because of natural attribute. However, more attention should be paid to the high level needs of teachers, which reflect the social attribute of them as part of the high level intellectual group. This paper seeks support from a trans-disciplinary view and adopts a research method of discipline convergence. Discipline convergence has become an inevitable trend because through such a kind of technology different disciplines are sure to generate resonation and a strong blasting effect. On the interdisciplinary level, the study is no longer confined to any single subject and the study method is integrated both structurally and symbolically.Chapter two is the general situation of incentive mechanism for universities and colleges. It mainly analyzes the current operation state of incentive mechanism for university teachers, makes the advantages and shortages clear and identifies the key issues to find out the best way for incentive.Chapter three is the analysis of incentive mechanism for university teachers. It mainly probes into several dimensions in constructing an incentive mechanism, such as the dimension of factors, structure and theory support, to make the incentive mechanism in accordance with the characteristics of teachers' own development, the actual development of school and the demand of social development.Chapter four is about the systems in the incentive mechanism for university teachers. It mainly discusses system construction of the mechanism from four parts, that is, the driving system, guidance system, performance system and control system. The main body of the construction process is seized structurally.Chapter five is the way to practically generating the function of the mechanism. It mainly discusses the function mode, principle, standards, structural optimization and performance evaluation in the operational process of the mechanism.Chapter six is mechanism regulation. Various kinds of superficial characteristics and phenomena when there is something out of control during the operational process of the mechanism and the possible reasons are analyzed to ensure smooth operation.