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Research On Generation And Operation Of Academic Power Organizational Forms

Posted on:2016-07-06Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1317330512972150Subject:Educational Economy and Management
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Whether in the theoretical analysis of university governance structure,or to explore the modem university system in practice,academic power is one of the key words,to strengthen the academic power has also become the consensus of the tertiary education community.Indeed,in the general sense of academic power,you can render its reality of weak status.To clarify the significance of strengthening academic authority so as to cause the concern and attention of strategic interests stakeholders inside and outside the university.However,in a highly organized and institutionalized social structure,the organization of power is the main form of participation in power characterizing game.Because university academic system is a "loosely coupled" community,and it is in the state of "organized anarchy",also with the reason of the inherent barriers between disciplines,the academic power exists with the feature of "decentralized shredding",and it requires the organizational mechanism to root in university organizations.Within universities,academic power organization form is the basic condition if the power of the academic system intends to enter university governance to play a role.Academic power is invalid if it has not been really completed the organization form,both within the power structure of the university,or in the governance structure of the university.Whether the power of university academic organization can "root",that is,how can academic power form,is one of the key factors that determine whether this authority can function properly,appropriately and effectively in the real world.Currently,there is no lack of "academic" organization in university,but the academic status quo power "inaction" has not therefore been changed.The reason is that the way and process of our universities'academic power organization is entirely in one "he organized" mode.Full involvement of the executive power is in the whole development process of the academic authority from individual to collective.Not only in the "generation" executive power are on the "offside"to authorize directly,but also showing characteristics of the bureaucratic administrative operations in the "run".For this reason,organization forms of our university academic power can not represent the academic system to effectively enter the university governance structure for a long time,let alone play a role.As you can see,long-term rootless of academic authority in Chinese university organization which is the root reason to cause imbalances of internal power structure,failure of structure governance and power conflict in the university.In fact,however,as another type of real existence,organization form of academic power in the Western university has shown a high power in the governance practices.So,how should the organization forms of academic power generate in Western university,and how it runs with the organizational form?To find the answer we need to go back to review the historical logic for the beginning of the academic power organizational form of the Western university from the medieval.By review the historical logic,it is apparently that the way of academic power generation in university is not exactly the same in different countries and different historical periods.In the middle ages,university academic power came into being with the form of natural evolution in organizational forms.Differentiation of the academic field in medieval universities has not yet occurred.Academic community is the university,and this corresponds to the initial performance of the academic power organization form is as"hometown association","student association" and "teacher group",which is completed in a "self-organization" mode.This process is independent and spontaneous,and in this process,"universities" order parameter dominates from disorder to order.After the completion of the self-organization process,with "pledge" for transferring basis,the medieval university academic community promoted academic authority to be transferred from individual ownership into the form of collective ownership.During the modern university period,academic affairs becomes complex increasingly along with the expansion of the university scale.To enhance the academic power control and response efficiency demands,the generation of academic power organization form generally experiences two stages.And there are two different paths in the first generation,includes:European universities inherit the authority governance of medieval traditions,and institutionalized the transfer mechanism from individual to collective ownership,forming a bottom-up contract transferring mode;The generation of the academic power organization form in American university has experienced the change from authorized by the board of directors to legal authorization,and the latter way becomes the common mode.Therefore,different from the forms of academic power in European university,American university followed a top-down authorization mechanism.It should be noted that the difference way of their first generation does not mean that they are high or low in the value.In historical perspective,as the existence of this two types,the organization of academic power form of the European university and the American university in overall both show strong governance.Secondary generation of academic power is carried out with the transfer in internal collectivity,it is the key part of running in the academic power organization form,including the two-way transfer of vertical and horizontal for organization and "jobs" shift based on individual and transfer of "entrustment of agent".Organizational form of academic power can play a role in the governance structure of the university,not lies in whether it characterized as organization form in reality,but in whether it is legitimacy in the way and process of the organization formation,that is to obtain the identity degree of the academic community collective.In the general observation dimensions of power generation of legitimacy,we can keep an eye on special generation form of academic power organization.Its substantial legitimacy foundation contains advanced knowledge,the contract assignment and legal norm,and the form of legitimacy foundation contains the university regulations and university traditions.Combination of the two foundation generates the two-dimensional determine framework of the academic power organization form.According to the analysis of academic power organization process of our universities in China,found that facing the identity crisis,cultural crisis,public crisis and the procedures crisis,and this has been verified by the sample data.To this end,with the de-administration remodeling paradigm,the supply of legitimacy foundation should focus on "Adjusting the system of supply and demand","improve the implementation mechanism","building decentralized governance system"and "shaping modern academic tradition" four aspects.Another problem related to the legal generation of academic power organization form is how the academic power operate effectively in the form of organization,specifically concerned with the two aspects "running architecture" and "operational mechanism".Historically,many drawbacks of university academic power during the reality operation much run from the offside,malposition and absence of the bureaucratic framework arrangements and operational mechanisms.And the essence is the excessive and improper administrative intervention.So the conflict between academic power and administrative power is the main contradiction needing us to face and handle in practice.In the design of the running form structure for academic power organization,we should learn from western modern university and university in the Republic of China in "vertical and horizontal match","coordination with the subject system" and "stability and flexibility simultaneously",and so on the aspects of common features.Meanwhile,analyze the special connotation with the factors "complexity","normalization" and "centralization",and then propose the idea of the overall operation of the framework:set "university academic committee,special committee of academic and academic sub-committees at all levels" as the inherent framework to safeguard the stability of the organization of academic power running framework,and with "the temporary academic organization which established by delegate powers to authorize" as a supplement to the framework,to enhance its flexibility and adaptability.Following establishment of the general framework,universities should base on their own school-running orientation,with overall analysis the center of gravity restraint of the subject factors,government and market factors upon the function of academic power organization form,and position the power center reasonably.For teaching university,it is reasonable to locate the power center on school level;For teaching research university,its power center located in college level is more appropriate;And for researching oriented universities,it is more appropriate to locate the power center of gravity in a grass-roots discipline.In building the organizational form of academic authority on the operational mechanism,in order to avoid many absurd university phenomenon and policy which derived from the defect of mechanisms,we need to solve three problems on "administration of mechanism building body" and "bureaucracy of design-oriented" and "abstraction of elements".At the same time,considered the specificity inside and outside of the system in China's university and deficiencies in academic autonomy tradition,to follow the principle of "the easy first",we will minimize the effect of the resistance factor,and rationally pursue a gradual path with the clear target.In the start-up period of mechanism,the university academic community should complete the transformation of academic power from individual to collective independently based on the requirement of "Higher Academic Committee procedures",and rapidly build mechanisms for "order" has been clearly defined.Meanwhile,the executive power of the university should be banned to be involved in the formation process of university academic power organization,and set up the evaluation group which prominent in academic subject property,to supervise the implementation of"order".Subsequently,academic power system should improve the mechanism based on"constitution of mechanism" and follow "loyalty incremental" and "collective internalized"in self-sustaining;The government should establish a standardized regulatory authority to impose administrative operation.In addition,we should also pay attention to the proliferation of supply based on the "agent" of the mechanism,and actuate the mandatory in academic power operation mechanism.
Keywords/Search Tags:organizational form of academic power, executive power, power generation, legitimacy, power operation
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