Design Of The Reward System For Research Fellows And Its Application

With the economy globalization and coming of the knowledge-based economy and the rapid development of the technological revolution represented by the internet information technology, the renewal pace of the knowledge and technology is largely accelerated, and then the scientific results are being converted to real productivity on a tremendous scale and speed. Under such a background, the domestic enterprises, especially the technology firms, attach more importance to the technological strength and the research fellows. For technology firms, the research fellows have become the key resources.Reward management is an important link of the enterprise' human resource management. The reward problem is one of the focuses both operators and employees of the firms are concerned about because it concerns the interests of the employees. Whether the future development aim of technology firms can be achieved mainly depends upon the research fellows, so it is very necessary to establish a set of scientific, systematic and inspirational reward system for them. It is from this angle that this paper tries to design a reward system applicable to the research fellows through the study to reward theories, reward systems and characters of research fellows management.At the very beginning of the paper, the author summarizes the relevant literature, including the definition and function of reward, the classic theories about salary, reward system theory, the characteristics of research fellows management and the reference for reward management of research fellows in domestic and foreign enterprises; then the author researches the design of reward system, dividing it into material reward design and spirit reward design. And then the author respectively discusses the problems of salary structure, technology grade salary, construction of enterprise culture and professional career program.Finally, based on the research conclusion, the author takes GL Electric-Apparatus Institute as the example to do the positive research to the reward system design for research fellows. The author analyses the current situation of the firm and then conducts the survey by questionnaire to the research fellows of the case firm. At the end of the paper, based on above results, the author designs respectively the material reward system and the spirit reward system of research fellows in technology firms.