On The Reasons And Countermeasures Of Brain Drain In Local Colleges

Usually a highly developed country must have first-class universities, while a first-class university must include first-rate disciplines which must reserve outstanding talents. For universities, talents are the essentials for their existence, the main strength of their operation and the hope of their development. In a word, the massive superiority in talents is the biggest advantage of a university. The local colleges undertake the mission of fostering advanced professionals and innovation of knowledge and technology for the country, especially for the local areas. However, recently brain drain has become one of the acutest problems in colleges, especially in newly built local colleges, due to the short history of operation, the lack of experience, incomplete mechanism, obsolete concepts and shortage of funds, the problem of brain drain is far more serious, which has bottlenecked the development of the local colleges and become a difficult problem in colleges personnel administration.This paper, taking some of the local colleges (especially LD college) within the province for example, begins with the analysis of the status quo and features of brain drain in these kinds of colleges. It continues to investigate the major reasons which have caused the recent situation from the aspects of external and internal factors as well as the factors of the talents themselves, by adopting the theory of human nature, Maslow's need hierarchy theory, equity theory and expectancy theory. The influences caused by this situation on local development, the college and the talents themselves are explored and some practicable countermeasures from the perspectives of management concept, motivation mechanism, talents environment and etc. are put forward on how to solve the problem of brain drain in local colleges.