著者

水原 克敏

出版者

日本教育学会

雑誌

教育学研究 (ISSN:03873161)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.69, no.4, pp.519-526, 2002-12

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Tohoku University System Committee completed an interim report on the new system plan in preparation for the new university administration system as an "Independent Administrative Institution".The report was submitted to Tohoku University Council on Septemper 24, 2002.The resposes to the interim report from all the departments are to be presented to the Tohoku University Counsil in October, and the final reprt is scheduled for completion by March 2003.University regulations will have been put together by May when the bill was laid bedore the Diet in May.The structure of this thesis is as follows:(1)the system of the decision making of the entire Tohoku University (the president, director association, counsil, management conference, and dean conference) and (2)the system of the decision making within each department (dean, management conference , and faculty meeting) and (3)the collective system of the clerical office staff and (4) the personnel management and the performance ralated payment, and (5)the prpblems to be solved.The emphasis is placed upon the integration of the following three elements:(1)the leadership of theoresident and the associated directors,(2)the democracy within Tohoku University, and (3)outsider's opinions.The approach to the issue of how best the above three elements are to be integrated will decide the course hat Tohoku Univeristy will follow to make its advancement.The second issue is the decision making orocess in each department.Whikr the management conference which assist the dean eill be newly established, the relation between the management conference and the faculty meeting is rather vague.It is likely that the that the management conference will take part in most of the decision making process within each department, which signifies that the role of the faculty meeting become less important.The third issue is the consolidation of the clerical work organization.On one hand the colletive clerical work organization will improve its efficiency.On the other, the the existing friendly relations between clerical staff and a department will be weakened.However, this kind of drawback is probably inevitable.The fourth issue is the personnel management, and the performance related payment.It is agreed that the system of deciding the payment in accordance with seniority has to be abolished.Neverthless, it is difficult to evaluate the performance in terms of research, which remains a problem to be solved.Above all the issues discussed in this paper however , what is important is the implementation of the new university administration based on the new principles.