Self-development: The New Vision Of The University Academic Staff Management

Establishing mechanisms to facilitate academician's self-development is an urgent task to enhance higher education institutions' competitiveness as well as a complicate problem to innovate human resource management, which higher education institutions must face. This dissertation, consisting of six chapters, focuses on discussing how to constitute effective mechanisms to facilitate the self-development of academicians.Starting with an analysis of the connotation and characteristics of academicians, the first chapter of the dissertation discusses the status quo of academic human resource management in China' higher education institutions, analysis problems existed and describes the challenges that higher education institutions academic human resource management must deal with. The author's researches suggests that academicians as knowledge workers are character with self-orientation, self-management, lasting creativity and self-refreshing. It suggests that only the esteem of academic work and the inspiration of academicians' potential can advance the higher education institutions development and promote higher education institutions' competitiveness.The second chapter discusses the relationships between higher education and academic development and the intrinsic links between academician development and academic development. It concludes that academicians is the key determinant of higher education, development of higher education w ithout d evelopment o f a cademicians i s impossible. A cademicians, h igher e ducation and academics develop together. They develop on the basis of academicians self-development.The third chapter analysis factors such as self-orientation, resource self-distribution, self-inspiration, self-regulation and academic ecological environment. It indicates that academics develops on the basic disciplines, regulated by the academic culture and sustained by specific privileges arrangement. The dynamics of academic development roots in academicians' self-inspiration. The directions and goals of academic development come from academicians' sensitive on the knowledge advance. The academic development is regulated by academic ethics.The fourth chapter starts with a discussion of the philosophical foundations of academic management ideas in higher education institutions. It suggests an academician-based philosophy of academic management, analysis the system and mechanism of academic management. It also offers a management strategy aiming to facilitate academician's self-development, which consists of reforming decision-making system, establishing open academic staffing system, innovating inspiration system of academicians and creating an environment supporting academicians self-management.The fifth chapter discusses the value orientations of the academic human resource management policy in higher education institutions. It mainly discusses how to expand institution autonomy, advance the step of academic staffing system reform, normalize academic management system, innovate payment system, establish and refine the social security system of academicians. It also makes policy analyses of the construction of the system environment and dynamics of facilitating academician development. Reform suggestions concerning these issues are offered.The sixth and the last chapter discusses the value orientation of academics self-development in twenty-first century. It explores the relationships between autonomy and responsibility, competition and collaboration, hard management and soft management, ideality and reality. It indicate that the focus of academics human resource management has been shifting from emphasizing instrumental value to emphasizing intrinsic value in academic profession, from emphasizing external pressure to emphasizing internal inspiration in academic development and from emphasizing outcome to emphasizing process in academic work.