An In-depth Study Of The Reform On Personnel Arrangement In Local Universities

Under the requirements of a series of policies about the reform on personnel arrangement in higher institutions promulgated by CPC Central Organization Department, Central Personnel Department and Educational Department, nationwide universities have commenced the reform on personnel arrangement which contains chiefly the changeover of managerial structure and operative mechanism, and aims mainly to improve the education quality and the running benefits from the late 1990's. It is not only an option of necessity in reform which adapts to the transition of Chinese economy system from planning economy to market economy, but also an inevitable way to improve the quality and benefits of Chinese higher education. Since the requirements of national policy are only in macroscopic aspects, each university can possess comparatively more independence during the reform so that one can explore the modes of reform with one's own features under the guidance of national policy.The content of the reform on personnel arrangement in higher institutions comprises three aspects: firstly, it is the reform of authorization, including the reform of the system on authorization management, the reform of organization authorization and the reform of the staff size; secondly, it is the reform of the employment system, including the reform of the position placement, the determination of position obligation, appointment and assessment etc.; thirdly, it is the reform of the arrangement principle, with the aim of establishing a new one in the principle of "efficiency is the first, impartiality is the second". The logical sequence of the reform process itself is: determination of the authorization→placement of the position→determination of the position obligation→appointment→assessment→arrangement. The structure arrangement of this thesis is organized exactly according to the logical sequence given above.As the important constituent of the whole of national high institutions, local universities have encountered a lot of problems in common due to a great deal of similarity in essence during the process of reform. Particularly when reform comes into the stage of storming fortified positions, the elements which restrict the further deepening of the reform have still more obvious similarities. These elements are represented in three aspects as the following (which are also the problems this thesis emphatically studies from academic angle): Difficulties in the reform:These are the difficult problems which will make one in a dilemma when one is searching for a solving program, while not, they will restrict the course of reform in entire situation. This dissertation concerns three problems. Firstly, it is the staff size calculation which is an important parameter for measuring the input of human resource. This parameter must guarantee both education quality and running benefits, and the difficulty lies in that there is no authoritative criterion which is worth using for reference. Secondly, it is the combining site of efficiency and impartiality in arrangement. In this reform, the arrangement principle contained in the national policy is "efficiency is the first, impartiality is the second" whose original intention is to solve the malpractice found in the previous mode with arrangement on average according to the status, and to stimulate the employees' working enthusiasm through the arrangement lever. However, how to change this qualitative requirement into quantitative standard in the specific implementing process is difficult, because the balance point between efficiency and impartiality is not measured by calculation, while it is influenced by employees' income level, institution's tradition and employees' psychological carrying capacity so that it should be determined with great consideration.The reform will not step into a new stage until these difficulties are solved.Key points in the reform:It refers to the assessment which determines the realization of the reform goals. Because the assessment segment decides the success of the entire reform, a set of assessment system with local universities' own features which can adjust to the working characteristics of university professional and technical personnel and party and government management.The reform will not work after stepping into the new stage until the key points are solved.Breakthroughs in the reform:It refers to the problem whether it will break through the old system thoroughly, that is to say, the realization of appointment system. It concerns the true realization of institutions' running autonomy and the true transformation of employees from being "college-oriented" to "society-oriented", closely bound up with the vigor of institution development. As the break-through point, which is also the critical point from quantitative change to qualitative change, it will take the qualitative change when both the external and internal factors meet the break-through conditions. Therefore, the universities are expected to use the available conditions fully and meanwhile, to accumulate quantities for breakthrough.The reform will not take the qualitative change until these breakthroughs are solved.This dissertation studies twenty-eight universities of Henan Province, of which it analyzes emphatically five representative universities: Zhengzhou University, Henan University, Henan Normal University, Henan Polytechnic University and Henan University of Science and Technology. From their experience and lesson in the reform practice, this dissertation studies the problems given above, moreover, compared with the related methods taken by domestic subordinate universities, privately operated universities and overseas universities, it observes and studies the data from varied viewpoints in order to draw the conclusion with more objectivity.