Strategies to improve university's governing ability based on the organizational structure

Abstract

From the perspective of organizational structure, this paper analyzes problems existing in the vertical direction, the horizontal direction and the general direction, and puts forward specific strategies to improve university’s governing ability in four aspects, namely straightening out the power structure relationship, adjusting the responsibility and power distribution, optimizing the organizational structure and simplifying the structure. UN Global Governance Committee once gave an authoritative definition of “governance” in the 1990s: “Governance” refers to the joint management of affairs by individuals or private or public institutions. With governance, different conflicts or interests can be reconciled, and it is a continuous process that joint actions are adopted . In terms of “university governance,” papers in ASHE series books discussing university students’ governance in the 21st century defines them as “the structure and process for stakeholders inside and outside universities to participate in the decision-making of major university affairs.” [2] Of course, internal and external university governance is different. This paper mainly studies universities’ internal governance. University organizational structure is a structure relationship featuring both labor distribution and cooperation among the work of university members, which is mainly reflected as duties, responsibilities, power, et al. It decides the labor distribution and coordination method of education, teaching, scientific research and other missions, and decides the operation status of the internal management model, academic power and administrative power.