The Status Survey And Countermeasure Research On Performance Related Pay For Elementary And Secondary School

Since January1,2009, the compulsory education schools in China have started theimplementation of performance related pay（PRT）, which aims to improve the treatmentof teachers, to strengthen teachers’ incentive and to promote education balance throughthe reform of salary systems. Over the past two years, after local education departmentspromulgated the implementation suggestions of PRT, primary and secondary schools haveformulated the allocation schemes of PRT. However, has the PRT system achieved thedesired policy objectives? What kind of problems did primary and secondary schoolsencounter in the implementation of PRT? What are the opinions and expectations doteachers have on the PRT? These became the focuses to be solved in reality, which also arethe key points to be discussed in this study.In the part of literature review, this paper summarizes the research of PRT in businesscommunity, introduces the history, current situation and relevant academic research aboutthe implementation of PRT in public primary and middle schools in foreign countries anddiscusses domestic research on the nature, principles and implementation effect of PRT.On the basis of the previous research, this paper focuses on the research of the school level,which inspects into the effects and problems in schools during the process of carrying outPRT, and puts forward some suggestions for improvement.In the third chapter, with the help of a questionnaire answered by five primraryand middle schools in Taizhou, Jiangsu and by one reserve cadres trained teachers, thispaper tries to know the actual effect of PRT reform, i.e. whether it improves teachers’wages, whether it strengthens the work motivation of the teachers, whether it promoteseducation balance. Is there an embodiment of decocracy, fairness and scientificalness whenthe primary and middle schools design and implement the scheme of performance evaluation and PRT distribution? How much do teachers satisfy with the PRT allocation?What major problems have schools encountered in the PRT reform? What are the teachers’expectations and suggestions to the next step of PRT reform? This chapter, at the sametime, discusses the focal problem during the process of the implementation of PRT, theperformance evaluation, which includes the subject, target, procedure and data acquisitioncycle of performance evaluation. This chapter summarizes the rationality of currentperformance pay system for middle and primary school teachers and the correlationbetween salary and performance, therefore to discuss whether PRT has generated theincentive effect that the policymakers have expected.With the investigation, the paper discovers that the PRT reform has not improvedoverall teachers’ wages, nor have obvious incentive on the teaching behaviors of teachers,but has improved the rural teachers, weak school teachers, young teachers’ treatment, andtherefore has significant incentive effect on some groups of teachers and part of theteaching behavior. Primary and middle school teachers holds basic approval for the PRTreform, while school administrators approve of the reform in higher proportion thanordinary teachers.Finally, by combining the research results and the relatively mature performancemanagement and salary management theory from the business community, the paper payputs forward some pertinent suggestions for the implementation of PRT at the school level.