Agricultural research institutes of scientific research in Performance Management

Performance management is the current world trend of Administrative Reform. Regardless of performance management Research and management from the industry specific units of the internal management of visions, are involved in a public service and management. Performance management itself contains a wealth of content, its own is composed of many elements, constitute part of the system. from the decision-making analysis and evaluation of scientific Research performance, but also must be able to proceed from reality and rational scientific hierarchical manner. Therefore, the strengthening of performance management Research, for the improvement of public management have important theoretical and practical significance.


1 on the scientific understanding and awareness of performance management
Management of large Research sector management, small to specific units within the administration, that science and technology workers are the basic characteristics of service sector management, subordinate part of a public service to provide management and services as the goal, with social welfare characteristics.

Performance, also known as productivity, performance, as such, referring to the work and activities of actors achievements or positive effects, is a resource input - output behavior of effective evaluation. For agricultural Research, the specific to the work practice of research management is the integration of resources through scientific research organization to reach goal of the system behavior, from the full range of research and monitoring work performance, behavior improvement and evaluation, which main function is to assess, measure, track, a major role in: ( 1) scientific research, the responsibility of the implementation of scientific research; (2) to work under the expectations of stakeholders; (3) scientific and technological achievements, the emphasis on results-oriented work; (4) individual performance and organizational performance in the dual needs; (5) inspire enthusiasm for the work; (6) effective management tool and work improvement.

Speaking from the management, performance management is the realization of organizational performance management process, management scholars on the study and understanding of performance management with the social practice and constantly enrich the development and improvement. Performance management as a dynamic effect of improving the management of public performance in scientific research units to units within its overall performance for the unit of analysis, greater emphasis on results-oriented, strategic management and systems management, help to further improve the effectiveness and performance of work units, a clear management responsibilities and tasks, and strengthen incentives within the unit, optimize the allocation of resources within the unit.


2 Current research problems in performance management
With the global trend of economic integration to accelerate the development, performance management as a new management philosophy and practice in many areas of China, the promotion and application units, also made no small achievement. But in general terms, our scientific research work particularly in the agricultural research units, performance management is still in the initial stage of development, not complete, there are many problems, mainly in:
(1) the output of scientific research are difficult to quantify, the costs of running the lack of comparability
Agricultural research is a long-term work, but also by environmental factors interfere with a more serious work, especially research projects to diversify sources of the diversification of assessment indicators, assessment process more complicated, the complexity of quantitative research, evaluation, Standard diversity, etc., are determined to correct research work hard to measure or quantify the measurement techniques. different items from the responsible party on the project performance objectives and requirements are not the same, the same unit within the target assessment between different categories of projects the difference is more obvious, while similar projects are also Nanjin research output between the same, not analog. agricultural research, including agricultural research projects should not only focus on the effectiveness but also pay attention to timeliness, greater investment in agricultural research projects are more concerned about social, economic operation is not a simple issue, and thus unable to obtain a more reliable comparison of costs and benefits of data on the performance evaluation difficult.

(2) the lack of accuracy of the performance management project objectives
In the process of public sector management, under normal circumstances, performance management project targets a certain lack of accuracy, in real social life, many public programs in the management process contains many value judgments and political factors, it is difficult to or the right amount of quantitative and qualitative expression of members of the community is difficult to form a consensus or a yardstick, and even the design of the project, there are some indicators of the will, the lack of scientific basis, out of touch with reality; even in the competitive project application apply for the same project between the results of the implementation and effectiveness of mutual competition. And from the perspective of public managers, the management of agricultural research more willing to management goals, objectives successfully modified using text language, vague statements This more social responsibility in order to avoid seeking a breakthrough.

As the special nature of agricultural trade and industry and the special status of agricultural research is not just about farming activities, also related to agricultural industry and national economic and social development, agriculture is a livelihood-related and social long-term stable development of public utilities. Therefore, in agriculture projects involved in the performance of many content management objectives, in scientific research and implementation of specific management practices, the same types of agricultural research projects between the qualitative and quantitative evaluation indicators is difficult to determine the same standard. As agricultural production has some special, agricultural research requires both laboratory work, field experiments and the need for more practice and so on, so the running costs of agricultural research to some extent, depending on the actual agricultural production, so in large part with hard uncertainty, may be implemented completely rigid management system needs more flexibility and flexible management.

(3) lack of theory and practice
From the performance evaluation of current practice, from the performance evaluation of the researcher involved in speaking, requires knowledge of the background to a number of disciplines such as management science, statistics, economics, psychology, administration, law and so on research talent in high demand, but our country in this area is relatively small.

Performance management from the operation of agricultural research point of view, in particular, the constraints of current conditions, the impact of institutional and traditional style, making the study of performance management is difficult, slow effect, while too many areas with administrative performance evaluation of color, but also makes performance evaluation and generally little difference to job evaluation. Second, due to the implementation of a longer period of agricultural research projects, in particular research projects pay more attention to social and ecological benefits, such Benefit of standards, methods are not perfect and science, making agricultural research performance is difficult to have uniform standards and methods. Third, the performance evaluation for the evaluation groups are Kochi with professional skills groups, in research projects, scientific research management process, it is difficult to form a unified integration of quantitative standards of conduct, on talents assessment of standards in different projects, different areas of work. Fourth, the specific practice, to carry out performance management of a late start, lack of relevant theory, based on weak performance management systems, performance management, administration mode to stay more basis of performance evaluation indicators in the design and evaluation method of choice, subject to limitations, the effectiveness of performance management makes it difficult to play effectively, performance management theory needs to be further deepened, and gradually establish and perfect. Links to Research Papers Download Center http://www.hi138.com 3 Improving the performance of agricultural research management measures and recommendations
(1) actively foster the ecological environment of performance management
The current implementation of agricultural research the reason why performance management difficult, one important reason is not conducive to the formation of an organization departments and units of social performance management environment. Performance management is the management of a very important component of rooted in the development of good public management, soil, also rooted in the soil of the larger society.

Agricultural research involves a wide range of performance management, broad, China and healthy development of performance management to be able to, and catch up with the level of foreign countries first, and now need to conscientiously sum up the reform and opening up the success or failure of agricultural research to assess the situation, in the new historical period agricultural research institutions to be good at science and technology system to seize the opportunity of deepening the country to strengthen performance management, promotion of agricultural research and theoretical research, to increase the human, financial and material resources, follow the law of agricultural research, the rational allocation of technological resources to enhance unit within the organizational culture, positive change in management philosophy and management, more emphasis on enhancing the performance industry authorities in the provision of total quality management, positive change not meet the development needs of the appraisal system, and continuously explore and establish a scientific evaluation system for carrying out performance management the development of conditions in the whole society to create a fair environment, the establishment of "people oriented" as a basic value orientation, accountability, responsiveness, fairness, economy, efficiency as the basic features, and actively promote scientific research and performance management.

(2) continuously improve the supporting system of performance management
First, to achieve the scientific evaluation of the performance of public administration, the need for a normative, legal, real statistical data system, step by step with international standards, establish a scientific system of price index and the scientific method to collect real data, analysis and evaluation of the correct conclusion.

The second is to gradually build into performance-based budget system. To increase the operating costs related to public utility accounting and monitoring, strengthening the people's congresses at all levels of government budget approval and oversight of efforts to build a sound system based on the performance of the public budget to improve efficiency, reduce costs, so as to provide a basis for public sector performance management.

The third is to strengthen the performance management process after evaluation. To actively include the results of the performance evaluation to the daily management of the process, so that participants can really have a correct understanding of its value there, reducing the members of the self-evaluation within the organization side loss of work caused a passive member of the organization's bonus distribution, job promotion and performance evaluation of the results of such links, a good performance management play an active role, but also to the results of the performance evaluation within the organization to do in the future policy system and so improve the basis.

(3) Strengthening the performance awareness, promote performance improvement
First, we must actively change the performance awareness, positive change in accounting methods and system performance to cost-effective performance evaluation into the management accounting system and establish ways and means of evaluation of public participation, to change the way performance evaluation department.

Second, according to various research projects, scientific research and the reality of the nature and stage of development, and establish the scientific concept of development, the correct view of achievements, to develop flexible and diverse performance objectives and performance planning.

The third is to create multiple performance evaluation system, in particular, to actively change the past by simply relying on the assessment of agricultural science and technology department in charge of a single main form of the progressive realization of the official assessment, civil assessment, expert assessment and evaluation, or diversification.

Fourth is to establish a new incentive mechanism. To promote agricultural science and technology workers, especially in science and technology project participants, implementers and related public to participate in ways to improve performance evaluation method for scientific evaluation to lay a good foundation.

Five is to establish the integrity of performance management mechanisms. Put the work in performance management into the routine, good faith between the establishment of a mechanism to effectively reduce the performance evaluation of random error, the results of more value to the assessment and reality, to achieve performance management The normalization and dynamic management.

(4) strengthening the institutional building of Performance Management
From a practical point of view and possible, seek truth from facts, and constantly improve the performance of agricultural research evaluation or performance audit of the ways and means to explore the establishment of suitable conditions of our country and to learn from experience and practice in advanced countries, through the improvement of rules and systems, so that our agricultural research, especially agricultural research project performance evaluation institutionalized, standardized and regular way. Links http://www.hi138.com Research Papers Download