Economic And Technological Development Zone, The Administrative Costs Of Research

The administrative costs are the administrative body's consumption of economy, politics, and society resources etc, and the indirect loss caused in the administrative activities. From different angles and standards, we can divide the administrative costs into consumption of labor and supplies, property depreciation, opportunities cost, management and finance cost; changeable and unchangeable cost; fix cost, variable and mixture cost; decision cost, leadership cost, performance cost, communication and feedback cost; hidden and visible cost etc. There are a few related category concepts of administrative costs, which are government cost, public expenditure, decision of administrative policy and performance. The factors affecting administrative costs are administrative costs, goals, environment and capability.By investigating the administrative costs of Hefei Economic & Technological Development Area and using various methods such as interview, analysis in the types of longitudinal changes, input-output analysis and the level analysis of cost, an analysis has been given to the administrative costs of management committee in recent years, it shows an upward trend in overall costs, including a reasonable and unreasonable growth. Unreasonable aspects are: increasing body's growth and staff, increasing the cost of day-to-day management, rent-seeking activities. The main reasons to these problems are: the deficiency of scientific concept, errors in administrative actions, the defection of mechanism and administrative systems, etc.Therefore, the management committee must change administrative costs into a reasonable structure, by optimizing the allocation of scientific and social equity; keeping volume moderate, steadying growth reasonable, building cheap government; efficiently utilizing, keeping management in scientific standards. For controlling the administrative costs, there are specific ways found in the following areas: establishing the correct conceptions; managing the scale of committee's agencies, changing the working functions of committee; improving the overall quality of administrative staff; establishing a scientific decision-making mechanism, improving the leadership level of decision-making; innovating mode and means of the management.In short, any of the region's administrative costs control is long-term and complicate system engineering. Those specific ways should be insolated and coordinating various ways by taking system's innovation as the core. It is the only way to achieve the objectives of low-cost and highly efficient government by focusing on the functions of the government to control the process of the implementation of the administrative costs.