A Study On The Incentive Mechanism Of Young And Middle - Aged Teachers In Private Colleges

With the development of our country’s economy and society, there has been a commonview in higher education circles that introduction of private capitals contributes to highereducation popularization that cannot only depend on investment from government. So privatecolleges have emerged and boomed as the times require in recent30years, being an importantpart of higher education in our country. Compared to public counterparts, the distinctivefeature of private colleges lies in self-financing without any government grant. The limitedfund is allocated in many respects, such as buying hardware devices, constructing schoolbuildings, engaging teaching staff and so on. As a result, teacher motivation lacks of fundwith high staff turnover.Among private college teachers, young teachers and elder teachers are in the majority,middle-aged ones are fewer. Young teachers outnumber others and tend to quit easily. So wemust stabilize middle-aged and young teacher team and strengthen quality building andmotivation mechanism for a long-term development of private colleges.This paper sums up the achievements of motivation mechanism of private colleges andpoints out main problems by comparing the difference of policies, treatment, and careerdevelopment and so on between public colleges teachers and private college teachers. Somepractical measures of middle-aged and young teacher motivation mechanism of privatecolleges are put forwards.