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The Giant University Of Organizational Change

Posted on:2004-06-19Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360122466860Subject:Higher Education
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Macro University is a product of the development of higher education. In the course of turning into powerful country of higher education from bigger country of higher education, the government has incorporated higher education institutes by compulsive means in order to construct lots of high-level universities including complete subjects and to prepare for the first-class university of the world. So many Macro Universities have come into being. By the end of the beginning of 2003, there have been more than 700 higher education institutes that have been incorporated. And together with the reason of practice of mass higher education so as to make universities' scale expand, there have been many Macro Universities containing three or four thousand students. Quantity's expansion must result in quality's change, namely elements in the internal organization. Quality's change of Macro University's organization is explored by theory background of its formation, external reasons, change of organization's objects, system, right, culture, and so on.Firstly, the dissertation hackles the thetry of Macro University's organizational change, especially from the period of middle 1980s. So it is considered that the theory of the way to expand reproduction based on scale benefit theory, property right theory of system-economics, exchange expense theory and consignation substitution theory are theoretical bases of system innovation of Macro Universities. And resource sharing, deploying, recomposing theories are its theoretical support. In practice, great shock wave of international politics, economics, and science and technology's fusion supply a very rare chance for Chinese higher education at the turn of century. Conforming former higher education in organizational system is needed for building core power of competence and turning into the first-class universities of the world. The act that the government has taken this chance to incorporate and recompose and change inhere irrational phenomenon in the higher education has been an advisable choice. When America assimilated experience of Germany to buildResearch University 100 years ago, he chose the unit of department in the organization not chair system. So the academic center of higher education transferred from Germany to America. In the course of 100 years for mass higher education, America has always been the status of center. The adjustment of higher education's organization in China will have to settle base for being into powerful countries of higher education. Macro University bringing the first-class university is a necessity of history.It is thought in the dissertation that change of Macro University is the change of organizational object, namely the characters of object is synthetic, academic and open. It has been proved that the indexes of incorporating higher education institutes and the number of graduate students have been enough. So the steps of opening must be been quickly and the trend is great. But the key of development is system innovation. The change of organizational system is that Macro University borrows exchange expense theory, property right theory, and consignation substitution theory of system economics to innovate its systems. As a result of middle level arrangement augment, using level adjustment to replace the market's adjustment becomes possible. There have been prior cases in the other countries. Based characters of higher education institutes, the style of adjustment will give priority to cultural adjustment. For the sake of saving exchange expense, consignation substitution has to replace government's function and management of evaluation and performance replace the function of market. The guarantee of system is a condition of organizational structure readjustment. The change of organizational structure embodies the following: firstly, teaching is separated from scientific research; secondly, special education is combined with general education and general education is melted in special education; lastly, graduates...
Keywords/Search Tags:Macro University, organization, change
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