Towards The Innovation Of University Culture & Organization Development

The culture of modern universities imbued with the same spirit as the western cultures and remarkable"endoparasite"of their independent development, which embodies their autonomy and academic liberty has been in nature restricting their development. Comparatively speaking, Chinese modern universities, profoundly influenced by the rationale and running patterns of western universities, are marked by"attachable development". Originated from the pragmatic purpose of"enriching the state and strengthening the army"and guided by scientificism and instrumental reasoning, universities concerned in China devote themselves to the social, political, and economic development, which in turn abandon both the pursuit of"academy for academy's sake"and attempt to destroy the root and branch of the traditional culture. The corresponding result is that universities rush to enlarge their size, extend their functions but attracts the poorer independent innovation and"worried"intellectual development quality. The main causes lies in that the universities mentioned are short of the rationale in running the school and SLOW in reacting to campus culture. Thus, it comes to be the fundamental project for Chinese universities to achieve independent development and self-primacy in terms of arousing their cultural awareness and constructing the university culture characteristic of China.Born with the brand of culture and accumulated large varieties of"genes"or solid foundation or bottom, university becomes a cultural organization with ideals and"an invisible hand"to determine its development. It is among the select best that the university culture has molded its brilliance and developed outstanding intellectuals different in style. Having been increasingly larger and more complicated ever since the 20th century, university has been the social institution rich in content from the previously single educational one. Its developmental power has been turned from the pure learning pursuit into the pool efforts of academic, political and marketing elements, characterized by openness, complexity and hierarchy in organization, and represented the multi-subject, poly-objective and pluralism in culture. However, university cultural researches simply emphasize common issues but neglects specific ones, which inevitably results in the theoretical studies devoid of content. Taking Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a case study, breaking through the general definition of societal nature of university culture and based on ideology-directed cultural perspective, the dissertation intends to examine the organization development, to reveal the relation of university culture to organization development, and to highlight the peculiarity of the University in cultural innovation.As one of the polytechnic schools founded after the founding of People's Republic of China, Huazhong University of Science and Technology has established the definite rationale of running the school and its developmental objectives earlier and formed its culture of innovation marked by"being bold in challenge and good at transformation". And since then, whatever happens outside and however the influence is exerted, the University has been keeping the constant pace with the social, political and economic development of the country, upholding its internal logic of development and devoting itself to independent evolution. Through the constant innovation of culture, it has not only passed down and elevated the ideology proposed and headed by president Zhu Jiusi, enriched and developed the university spirit concerned, but promoted the reform and innovation of systematic, managerial and academic causes as well. Due to such great efforts, the University has changed from the monotechnic into the polytechnic in organization and created an"organizational miracle"in the history of New China universities.Taking the university itself as a research perspective, the paper is intended to explore the cultural evolution of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in terms of the cultural selection theory and the cultural cost theory so as to construct an analytic framework of"Concept-Personality-System", and to parse its cultural evolution and demonstrate the transmission and innovation of such cultural elements as its concepts of running the school, its institutional reform, its subjects culture, its scholar elegance and so forth in terms of three mainlines exemplified by the rationale of running the university, university spirit and university systems, with an attempt to illustrate the significance of cultural innovation in the development of universities. It thus consists of seven chapters under the headings of three parts, including the review of basic theoretical researches of university culture, the organizational development of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the interpretation of university cultural innovation. The study concludes tentatively from the findings that the core of the University is cultural innovation; cultural innovation is the internal motives of the University development; president of the University function a key role in cultural innovation; and cultural innovation promotes the systematic reform and academic innovation of the University.Cultural innovation of Huazhong University of Science and Technology shed some provoking implications for us as follows. On the one hand, university culture is an organic entity of ideological system; on the other hand, the innovation of university culture is the foundation of its independent development. Furthermore, the innovation is a constant process beyond itself, reflecting the features of the global development in general, requiring self-contained cultural traditions, together with multi-cultural visions, open and considerate states of mind, cultivating the spirit of self reflection and pursuit of self-brilliance, and strengthening the ability of independent development, in particular. It is to establish the"soul"of the University by constructing the university culture characteristic of China with the combination of the enduring native culture with the foreign cultures.