以就业能力为新的使命——高职高专院校组织变革的案例分析

Employability as a New Mission:Organizational Changes in Chinese Higher Vocational Colleges

本文以社会学理论和组织学理论为分析框架,研究中国高职院校正在经历的组织变革。在宏观层面上,在全球新自由主义的思潮下,高职院校正从社会公共机构向企业转变,将就业能力作为新的使命。在微观层面上,在新使命的影响下,高校在培养目标、专业发展、课程开发、教学方式、教师发展和内部管理方面发生了很大的变化。这些变化既符合以就业能力为核心竞争力的观点,也符合组织变革的冲击-反馈模式。一个潜在的后果是高职高专院校有可能退化为职前就业培训机构。

The analysis is based a multiple-case study. The analytical framework is developed from sociology theories and organizational theories. This study argues that vocational colleges in China have been experiencing substantial transformations. At the macro-level, influenced by the neo-liberal arguments for globalization, they have been transforming from social institutions to industries, with cultivating employability as their new mission. At the micro-level, under the influence of the new mission, there have been considerable changes in program goal, program development, curriculum development, dominant pedagogy, faculty development, and internal management. These changes fit the rhetoric of the employability as core competency, as well as the impact-reaction model for organizational change. The implication of these changes is that Chinese vocational higher ed- ucation institutions may be degenerated to employment training organizations.