The Logic of Scientific Research Staff's Action and Developing Dilemma of Organization Driven by Quantitative Assessment
Liu Ling1,2, Chen Shigao3
1. School of Management,Hainan University,Haikou 570228,China; 2. Hainan Institute of Corporate Governance,Haikou 570228,China; 3. Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science,Haikou 571101,China
Abstract：This study takes one institute as an example,and explores how scientific research staff behave in terms of scientific research output and interpersonal relationships and the results it brings to the organization from the perspective of rational choice theory.The study found that some researchers with strong scientific research ability may“vote with their feet”,move away from the original organization,and enter a new organization when the original organization's assessment preferences do not match their utility functions.On the contrary,if the organization's assessment preferences match its utility function,they will adjust their energy allocation,minimize their participation in public affairs,and concentrate on obtaining more scientific research output.The other researchers who do not have the ability to“vote with their feet”will try to achieve the performance standards by“making good interpersonal relationships”or reducing public participation.As a result,although the organization avoids the scientific researchers’“voting with their feet”and gets relatively more scientific research results by quantitative assessment,it gets into some troubles such as more and more difficult to generate high-quality scientific research results and the public affairs presenting a“tragedy of the commons”phenomena and so on.Based on this,the article proposes to change the stepped quantitative evaluation method to a continuous quantitative evaluation method,formulate the evaluation cycle of different research fields scientifically,limit the scope of using quantitative evaluation results,strengthen the construction of scientific research service staff,and build a fair third-party evaluation mechanism.
刘玲, 陈诗高. 量化考核驱动下科研人员的行动逻辑与组织发展困境[J]. 中国科技论坛, 2021(3): 181-188.
Liu Ling, Chen Shigao. The Logic of Scientific Research Staff's Action and Developing Dilemma of Organization Driven by Quantitative Assessment. , 2021(3): 181-188.
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