| Against the background of knowledge economy, scientific and technological strength of enterprises has been playing a more and more important role in market competition, becoming one of core competitive factors. However in the final analysis, the scientific and technological strength of enterprises depends on the working performance of scientific and technological employees in enterprises. A compensation study about these employees in companies is of vital significance to improve workers'performance, enhance company competition and achieve enterprise strategical goals. This thesis, based on an empirical study on current compensation of scientific and technological personnel in China conducted by the"Survey Data of Compensation for Scientific and Technological Employees in China"research group of China Association for Science and Technology, extracts the related data on scientific and technological employees in enterprises and has an over-all analysis about the problems existing in the compensation system of Scientific and Technological employees and also puts forward with countermeasures and suggestions.The thesis begins with the definition, function, development history of compensation and compensation management, and also related incentive theories including Expectancy Theory and Two Factor Theory, laying a good theoretical foundation for the following analysis. Based on survey data, the thesis next categorizes kinds of salaries into hygiene factor and incentive factor according to two factor theory. In consideration of the characteristics and functions of hygiene factor and incentive factor, the thesis analyses the problems existing in all kinds of compensations and provides countermeasures and suggestions including adding incentive benefits to basic steady salary; establishing reasonable performance appraisal and preventing bonus and performance from becoming hygiene factors; endeavoring to expand the promotion channels for scientific and technological employees, increasing promoting positions and creating more opportunities of training and learning for those staff. The thesis then, based on the relations concerned by expectancy theory, analyses the problems of compensation system and offer corresponding methods including doing a good job about compensation consultation and having a good command of employee's compensation demand; paying close attention to the industry compensation and attending survey on industry compensation regularly to secure fair and reasonable compensation.Last the thesis puts forward with a series of policy suggestions about how to improve the current compensation system for Scientific and Technological employees in terms of society, organization and system, including bringing the communication function of AST"Association of Science and Technology"into full play to organize scientific and technological worker societies within industry to carry out compensation investigation and career training; establishing currency compensation system based on ability and performance and also emphasizing benefit system to build up multilevel flexible welfare system; improving staff working experience and over-all compensation satisfaction and also advocating employees'participation in compensation management and setting up employee communicating channels. |