中国院校研究人员组织智能之调查研究

A survey study of Chinese institutional researchers′organizational intelligence

院校研究机构是大学管理机构的重要组成部分,其主要职能是为大学决策提供实证性研究依据。有效的院校研究机构和个人必须拥有技术与分析、院校事务、院校背景以及院校价值观等方面的组织智能。文章利用院校研究组织智能开发调查问卷,对中国院校研究组织智能进行调查研究。结果显示,中国院校研究人员的组织智能还很欠缺,尤其是在技术与分析方面的智能非常薄弱。研究建议,中国大学通过改革高等教育专业课程、提供更多的院校研究技能培训、明确院校研究专业化和职业化发展路径、构建院校研究协同体来提升院校研究人员的组织智能,进而改进院校研究绩效,提高院校研究决策服务质量。

Institutional research office is a very important component of higher education organizational structure. Its most important role is to provide data-informed evidence for decision making. An effec- tive institutional research office and individual must possess all forms of organizational intelligence, like technology and analysis, college affairs, college background and college values. This study uses the theory of organizational intelligence of institutional research to develop a survey instrument and examines the organization intelligence of institutional research in Chinese universities and colleges. The results show that Chinese institutional researchers have weak organizational intelligence, especial- ly in the technical and analytical area. The findings suggest that Chinese universities and colleges change the curriculum of higher education programs to offer more practical courses, organize more workshops on institutional research methods and database development, specify a clearer path of insti- tutional researchers to professional knowledge and career development, and establish a collaborative consortium among institutional and operational units to improve organizational intelligence, and thus improve the institutional research effectiveness and the quality of service for decision making.