Dilemma and Breakthrough: Problems, Causes and Countermeasures of Faculty Performance Management in Undergraduate Institutions in China

Since 2009, undergraduate colleges and universities have experienced a development process from imitating and referring to general education to exploring reforms with the characteristics of vocational education and gradually maturing. However, in recent years, the performance pay system has brought a series of practical problems to the performance management of undergraduate institutions: the current performance pay system, in the practice of teachers’ performance management, has fallen into the dilemma of not being able to give full play to its incentive leverage; most teachers are not highly satisfied with the operation status of the current performance management system in schools. Teachers lack work motivation and enthusiasm for independent development; stagnation of teaching reform in vocational education, etc. Various things contribute to the dilemma of performance management; therefore, we should make comprehensive use of modern management theories such as humanistic theory, multiple motivation theory and human resources to optimize the objectives, management evaluation criteria, management methods and management organization structure of teachers’ performance management in undergraduate colleges and universities, and improve the performance management system system from different levels.