The Teachers Compensation Incentive System In Universities Of China

At present, teachers in universities are lacking of enthusiasm in their teaching. It can mainly attribute to the current compensation system, which hasn't fully reflected the characteristics of teachers' profession. The system pays excessive attention to teachers' devotion instead of their basic demands. Therefore teachers' payment hasn't highly spirited them up. In addition, the current system of compensation is not complete.This article focuses on the specific difficulties in university as well as the disadvantages of the current compensation system in the university. On this basis, I try to establish a new type of incentive system of compensation for teachers in universities by quoting F.Herzberg's Double Elements Theory and Effective Salary Theory in economics,etc as a reference. My basic idea is: teachers are paid at a high level, which can be called basic compensation. The basic compensation must be able to cover teachers' living expenses, health insurance and endowment insurance. Then extra money, called incentive compensation, is paid according to the extra work done by teachers. The advantage of this system is the money you get is closely connected with your work. Due to the high compensation, teachers in university are willing to work hard to ensure that they won't be dismissed. The kernel of such a compensation incentive system is teachers' high compensation. Government should raise teachers' compensation to a high standard as a whole to make the profession more attractive.To implement the teachers' compensation incentive system in universities needs various conditions. In order to establish a proper atmosphere, both government and universities should carry out proper reforms. Government should not only defend the holiness of the education law and the implementation of investing more to education, perfect the current compensation system . Besides, universities should set up a series of effective principles for teaching assessment, which can reward excellent teachers and dismiss unqualified teachers. The compensation incentive system can be considered as an improvement of the current salary policy.