The Development, Comparison And Enlightens Of The Theories Of University Academic Organization Overseas

Cot Lawmen has a famous saying. He said, there is nothing more useful than a good theory which is suitable for higher education. The theory is especially important, and it should not only stop on the theory researcher's paper, but also be used appropriately in the practice.The university academic organization research overseas starts from 50's of the 20th century, and it has been carrying on, which put forward the collegial mode theory, the political pattern theory, cultural pattern theory and so on. Different scholars had different conclusions. Compared with vibrant development of the university academic organization research in overseas universities, the corresponding study of our country lagged behind. The university academic organization research in our country failed to reach the level of theory since the establishment of our country, and has not formed a set of standard concepts and research models. The concepts which are used in the research process mostly come from the practical work of higher education management, which is lacking in abstract, standard explanation and the limits about connotation and the extension of the concept. Although many research paper and the monograph about higher education management have be publicized, but the academic school which is influential has not been formed until now. The systematic theory has not been formed in academic body. Only some scholars talked about academic body's movement pattern scattered. In modern time of globalization, the construction and development of any discipline in china all inevitably are carried on under the background of the development and construction of other countries' corresponding discipline in the world. Therefore, understanding the academic development in the world and grasping its vein and the trend has no alternative but to become an important foundational work. In this topic, the author takes the time as a line,connects the university academic body theory which has existed overseas, and has carried on contrast analysis to it from several dimensions. The full text altogether divides into five parts:The first part defined the concept of the university academic organization. "The university academic organization" in this paper is not deal with the concepts, such as the administration in the university organization, association organization and the political organization, etc., but mean the phrase of "university", which is actually a station at "university" in this paper and carry on the study to this academic organization of "university". Through defining the concept of university academic organization, we can then understand the content of the academic organization and stretch the concept and also then can develop to carry on better analysis to the history of the academic organization theories according to its meaning. Subsequently the paper emphasized on analyzing the characteristics of university academic organization. The university and colleges are a special king of professional organizations. Though it has many commonplace with other complicated organization, its main characteristics differ from the industry organization, government organ an business companies. Hence it is necessary for us to understand the intrinsic characteristic of the university academic organization and its essence.The second section took time as sequence, described the develop grain of foreign university academic organization theories. It combines the foreign university academic organization theories since 50's in 20 centuries, such as the dual organization structure theory, collegial paradigm theory, bureaucracy organization theory etc., the paper analyzed their development in sequence order, and depict each kind of theories' representatives and traits slightly. It's lengthways analysis to the theories.In the third part, the author analyzed each theories in same level based on a few dimensions of thinking, comparing the difference of each theories in several dimensions of the right ownership, the decision methods, the leadership methods,...