Research On The Salary System Of Primary And Secondary School Principals

As the sayings said that"As is the principal,so is the school," which means as the educator, leader and manager in the school ,the principal plays a major role in raising the quality of education and affecting school's development.It is vital to improve educational quality whether principals can be effectively inspirited and do their best in their works. Therefore, research on the incentive of principals is particularly important, it helps to tap the greatest potential of leadership and management of principal and improve their own value . Concerning the theoretic research and practice of Chinese assignment system,it is clear that the study on principals salary is still relatively weak.The contradication and problems of the present salary system and the assignment system are obvious.The function of salary system guide the principals and improve their performance is far from satisfactory.So the establishment of incentive salary system which is accordding with the characteristics of principals profession, is the focus of current education reform.From the analysis to the structure, function and affective factors of principal salary,according to the theory of principal specialization, effective salary and the hierarchy of needs,base the investigation on the principal salary system of Xiangyin county in Hunan, this paper analyses the shortcomings of current principal salary system through questionnaire and interview survey , major problems are as follows,their compensation lacks of market competitiveness, bad agility,unfairness of distribution caused by distempered appraisal system etc. And then this article proposes how to improve the salary incentive of principals from the government aspect at presently condition : First, through national macro-control to increase investment in compulsory education and enrich and improve legislative and legal system to provide legal protection for salary system of principals. Government's support of compulsory education is an important safeguard for the system. Second, improve the level of principals'basic salary and change concepts to achieve marketization and agility of salary system which is consistent with the characteristics of principals professional. Finally, establish a scientific performance appraisal system,and implement performance-based pay system as soon as possible.