Vocational Teacher Incentives Countermeasures

Vocational education will enjoy a beautiful spring with a bright future and good opportunities for all during the period of our national the eleventh five-year plan for the development of the economy and society. In the meantime, higher vocational institutes will continue to meet at least three challenges: the lack of input into education, a fierce level of competitiveness in the education sector and faculty building with high attributes. In order to accomplish their main aim of educating large number of students in practical competency for our nation, higher vocational institutes must solve these problems and meet these challenges. The continued development of high vocational institutes depends on motivating teachers which will not only enhance the competitiveness of the vocational institute but is also an effective means of increasing working efficiency and performance, as well as strengthening teacher-team building. I worked as a teacher in a vocational institute and support the view that the research into teacher motivation is meaningful in a realistic society when combined with theories of incentive and teachers' administrative practice.This paper states the relationship between requirement and motivation, and theoretically analyzes the necessity of motivation in teachers in higher vocational institutes. The inadequacy of motivation has caused the teachers to feel dissatisfied with the management of institutes and lose heart in work. All of theses restrict the development of higher vocational education. The effect of the incentive measures in the Sichuan College of Architectural Technology in the recent years will be analyzed in the paper through questionnaires and individual interviewing. Both the need differentials of different types of teachers and the needs hierarchy structure of teachers will also be analyzed. The impact on different type of teachers of the material incentives, policy incentives, environmental incentives and spiritual incentives will also be analyzed. Through these analyses, the using of incentive theories, existing research findings and results and a variety of practical settings, the paper will discuss incentive measures that will motivate teachers and how these measures can be established successfully. The principles and measures of motivating teachers are brought forward at the end of the discourse. The main incentive methods are material, spiritual, objective, participative and emotive.The final part will stress the principles that the design and implementation of the incentive measures must present thoughts based on people. The establishment of harmonious institutes is the highest bourn of teacher motivating. The author is confident that the research results will be helpful in the reform of teachers' administration in higher vocational institutes and will also provide the managerial staff with some definite points of reference and instructional functions.