Reconstruction Of The Organizational Culture In The Merged University

University mergence is an administration reform in high-education facing the 21 century. It's a strategic effort to develop our country relying on science and education. In the past 10 years, waves of university mergence overwhelmed the whole country, having unprecedentedly wide and complex impacts of various kinds. After inspecting emerged universities, this essay approves the experience and achievements of this reconstruction, and points out the conflicts and contradictions in ideas, economic profits, power re-division, status, prestige and the cultures of the new and the former campus. Though the colleges merged are of different kinds and have their own history of development, each one is bound to face a lot of problems such as how to set the goals to run the university, how to set the scale of the university, how to coordinate all the school areas with different levels in teaching and administration, how to deal with the relationship of the university and its school areas, how to form ownership feelings between school areas and the university as well as teachers and the university, how to choose between the power centralization system or the power division system and so on. Whether these problems can be solved properly has relation to the substantive fusion of the merged colleges.This essay, using organizational methodology as its theoretical foundation, defines the meaning of organizational culture, elaborate on the rich connotations of university organizational culture in the 3 levels of substance, system and spirit as well as its functions in community assimilation and guiding, restraint and regulation, combination and radiation, adaptation and inspiration, stressing the special functions of university organizational culture in administration. By the description of its characteristics as two-sides, multiplication, exclusion and condense, the essay emphasizes the positive effects of analyzing the present situation of organizational culture in merged universities, of reforming the cultures unfavorable to the development of the university, and of rebuilding a new organizational culture in solving the relatively projecting gaps and conflicts of the one inside the merged university so as to unify the minds, consciousness and behaviors of the members, to enhance their initiatives, cohesion force and human relationships, and to build a positive image of the university in order to improve the competitive abilities as a whole.This essay chooses Nantong University, the one under mergence andreconstruction; as an example to find its historical origin and cultural accumulations by tracing its history and summarizing the educational thoughts and characteristics of running a school from Zhangjian; a famous industrialist and educationalist in modern Nantong; China. Through the analysis of the present situation of Nantong University; the essay indicates the opportunity to develop for the university and makes clear the conflicts and contradictions induced by organizational reform; especially in terms of organizational cohesion force in this newly-founded organization. Finally; considering the present situation of Nantong University; the essay puts forward 5 tentative points to reconstruct the organization culture. First; inheriting Zhangjian's concept to allocate the aim of Nantong University. Second; excavating connotations of exhortation to demonstrate the spirits of Nantong University. Third; advocating academic autonomy to create a harmonious environment in Nantong University. Four; sticking to hold high human beings to construct the common blueprint of Nantong University. Five; condensing strength of teachers and students to set up good university spirits.