Reflections on the Team-building of High-level Talent in Shandong Characteristic Industry Town De-liang Zhang Shandong polytechnic university, School of business, Jinan ,China zhangdel@126.com Abstract - Team-building of high-level talent is the core to promote the development of Shandong characteristic town. Based on the status quo analysis on team-building of high-level talent in Shandong characteristic industry town, this paper analyzes the problems existed in team-building of high-level talent in Shandong characteristic industry town, and puts forward with the measures to build up high-level talent team in Shandong characteristic industry town. Keywords - characteristic industry town, high-level talent, Shandong Province, team-building After the State Council brought up with the guideline of “Small Town with Grand Strategy--Taking the Urbanization Road with Chinese Characteristics” in 2000, Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government actively responded to the call of State Council and issued a series of policies and supporting measures, leading Shandong characteristic industry town to a stable development road. Till now, the characteristic industrial economy has been the major component of national economy in Shandong Province. Jun-min Wang, the Vice-governor of Shandong Province, put out (2010): “The development of characteristic industry town has important strategical significance on the mode-change, structure-adjustment and the promotion and increase of employment, and there is a large developing room.” During the 11th five-year plan, the characteristic industry town in Shandong has relied on the advantageous resources to develop such characteristic industries as food, chemistry, equipment manufacturing, textile, garment and shoes (leather) ,electronic information and home appliance, construction material, furniture, industrial arts, hardware, plastic, automobile and its fittings, boat and marine engineering, forging, new material, new energy, and pharmacy.[1] The small and middle enterprises in Shandong Province converged quickly at the characteristic industry town and industrial clusters, forming a batch of well-known regional brands for characteristic industries. There were totally 140 characteristic industry towns being supported with emphasis in Shandong Province. By the end of 2010, there were 71,311 small and middle enterprises gathered in all kinds of characteristic industries in Shandong Province, with 3.75 million employees, fulfilling sales revenue of RMB1,165 billion Yuan, and taxation of RMB ____________________ The author would like to express his thanks to the regional innovation and sustainable development research base of Shandong province college humanities and social science research base for the financial support. 84.6 billion Yuan. The high-level talent team in characteristic industry town is the core to push the development of economy with Shandong characteristics, and plays the demonstration and leading role for the building of the entire talent team. On the development of characteristic industry, the high-level talent plays a determinate role. Along with the rapid development of Shandong economy, the demand on high-level talent in characteristic industry town will increase further, but the team-building of highlevel talent in Shandong characteristic industry town is laggard, thus both the quantity and the quality of highlevel talent at present can’t meet the need, which restricts the rapid development of characteristic industry in Shandong. Therefore, it is the basic requirement for the sustainable development of Shandong economy to further cultivate and attract high-level talent applicable for Shandong characteristic industry town. I. The results achieved during the team-building of high-level talent in Shandong characteristic industry town From the view of the developing course of Shandong characteristic industry town, the high-level talent in characteristic industry town mainly refers to talent in the following areas: The first, senior management in characteristic industry town, including chairman of the board, general manager, and the principal of the party committee and the government,[2] such as the senior management in areas of food development, equipment manufacturing, electronic information and home appliance development, industrial arts development, the process of characteristic products in agriculture, the development of new energy product etc., the Secretary of party committee and the Chief of town. The second, senior technical talent in characteristic industry town, including the professional technician with advanced title of a technical post in characteristic industry; the specialist and academic leader with outstanding contribution to the country and Shandong Province; and the major principal of important projects in the country or Shandong Province. The third, high-skilled talent in characteristic industry town, including the talent with advanced title of a technical post, and the talent with important achievement or creative invention in science and technology area. The fourth, the high-level talent in the development of characteristics products in agriculture, including the talent engaged in the development of characteristics products in agriculture and industrial arts, high-level talent with special skill for the process of agricultural products and the one who may make significant contribution to the development of characteristic economy in agriculture. In recent years, surrounding the development of characteristic industrial economy, Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government has enhanced the team-building of high-level talent in characteristic industry town from three aspects: development, use and attraction. It makes the talent’s whole quality in characteristic industry town improve steadily, its structure optimize, and primarily forms highlevel talent team with Shandong characteristics and certain scale in characteristic industry town, leading to a new road combining the selection of local high-level talent in characteristic industry town from multichannels with the reasonable introduction of high-level talent into characteristic industry from the out side of Shandong Province. A. Construct the policy system for team-building of highlevel talent in Shandong characteristic industry town Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government consistently paid much attention to human resources work. In order to complete the relevent work, they established the philosophy of “serving the development, talent priority, focusing on use, innovative mechanism, high-end leading and whole development”; comprehensively implemented the strategy of being a strong province by virtue of talent; improved the quality and the whole level of telent; set up the policy systems involving talent cultivation, use, attraction and motivation and other aspects; And issued such files as “Middle- and Long-term Talent Development Program of Shandong Province (2010~2020) ” , hence determined the direction for the team-building of high-level talent in characteristic industry town. They also founded an incentive mechanism, taking heavy rewards to science and technology, philosophy and social sciences award, special allowance by State Council and special allowance by Shandong provincial government as the orientation, and the independent incentive by each system and each type as the main stream, so as to positively create a good environment and social atmosphere for the introduction, retainment and use of high-level talent. B. Manage to solve the problem of unreasonable structure of high-level talent in characteristic industry town, enhance the talent cultivation force It is the first task for the development of Shandong characteristic industry town to make the best use of highlevel talent, and use it flexibly. In order to solve the problem of unreasonable structure of high-level talent in characteristic industry town, it has carried out the exchange work of high-level talent, and the high-level talent were encouraged to work in basic department, and the front lines of production and research to provide decision-making consultation, science and technology cooperation and technical direction. Each year, the relevent departments selected a group of high-level talent with bright future to exchange, and coordinated and organized the experts group of several academicians and researchers to provide consulting services, advice and suggestions for the harmonious development of the economy and society in Shandong. It also strengthened the work for the high-level talent to serve the development of characteristic industry, adhered to the principles of training and research, focusing on improving the research capacity and innovation capability of highlevel talent. It implemented a lot of high-level talent cultivation projects, such as “The Cultivation Plan for Innovative Technology Leading Talent in Shandong Province”, “Introducing Thousands of Overseas Innovative and Entrepreneurship Talent” plan, “The Cultivation Project for Excellent Enterprise Manager”, “The Project for the Growth of Young Elites in Shandong Province”, “The Promotion Plan for Entrepreneurship Talent” , “The Development Plan for High-skilled Talent” etc.[3]Each year, a number of high-level talent were selected to attend various training courses organized by School of CPC and other key institutions for further study, thus preliminarily settled the problems of unreasonable structure of high-level talent in characteristic industry town. C.Actively expand the channels to introduce high-level talent into characteristic industry town, and achieve certain results in the work of gathering various talent Nowadays, Shandong deeply has implemented the concept of scientific development, scientific talent and being a strong province by virtue of talent, insisted on the principle that talent shall obey the administration of CPC, adhered to the law of socialist market and the growth pattern of talent to liberate the thought, to reform and innovate. It should take the team-building of high-level and high-skilled talent as the emphasis; the enhancement of innovation capability as the key; the best use of talent as the root; the mechanism reform and policy innovation as the driving force, so as to attract the talent, stimulate their vigor, improve their performance, forge a area full of high-level talent and excellent labor force, build the brand of “Shandong Talent”, and provide substantial personnel and intellectual support for the construction of economic and cultural province. The introduction of overseas talent and intelligence experts has made tremendous progress through the manners of taking a temporary post, engagement, the bidding of science and technology projects, giving lectures, consulting and long-distance diagnosis. There were 39 foreign experts who have won the National Friendship Award, and 27 foreign experts gained Qilu Friendship Award. 82,000 person-times of foreign experts were introduced, 11,000 person-times of people from different fields were trained, more than 870 technologies were introduced, with more than 1,260 varieties of new products. 20,000 overseas students returned to Shandong, bringing in 18 innovative entrepreneurship bases and 38 high-tech business parks.[4] Through the measures above, a large number of leading talent have sprung up in areas of food development, machinery and equipment, marine research, biological research, pharmaceutical development etc. D. The total amount of high-level talent in characteristic industry town is increasing year by year, and the structure of high-level talent is gradually reasonable In recent years, through the strengthening the work of training and introduction of high-level talent, the quantity structure of high-level talent has undergone significant changes. By the end of 2011, there were totally more than 4,000 high-level innovative talent in Shandong Province, 38 Academicians, 303 Taishan scholars, 99 at national level, 122 experts with outstanding contributions to the country, 2800 experts enjoyed State granted allowance, 600 young experts belonged to the Shangdong province, 700,000 talent with advanced skills, 380 chief technicians. There are more than 190 doctoral and postdoctoral workstations. With the number of high-level talent increasing, its age structure tends to be more reasonable and younger. II. Problems existed in the team-building of high-level talent in Shandong characteristic industry town A. The high-level talent in characteristic industry town distributes unevenly, and its flow is out of line The middle- and long-term problem during the economic development in Shandong is the uneven distribution of high-level talent in different regions and industries. At present, there are more than 350 professional and technical talent per 10,000 people, the number of which ranks 13th in the country, and 797 less than that in Beijing and 132 less than that in Liaoning; there are 15 technicians per 10,000 people; and the amount of scientists and engineers per 10,000 also ranks 13th in the country.[4] This does not match with the provincial total population and economic scales in the whole country, indicating that professional technicians are still in desperate need, and the total amount of talent and the talent density should be increased as soon as possible. High-level talent who have specific skills in characteristic industry, who have one kind of skill and multiple capabilities, who are innovative, are particularly in desperate need. From the view of age structure, the age of high-level talent tends to be older, especially those in characteristic industry, most of whom are approaching retirement and centralize in the east. In addition, two-way flow of high-level talent is out of line. From the flow between Shandong and other provinces, it is indicated that inflow outnumbers outflow, with most flowing to the better developed areas, such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong. Most of the talent flowing out are the academic leaders and technical experts in the characteristic industry, while those who flow into Shandong are college graduates. According to incomplete statistics, in recent years, the talent out-flowing from Shandong, are mainly middle-aged young backbones. At the same time, it is difficult to introduce high-level talent needed desperately by Shandong. From the flow within Shandong Province, it is showed that more talent flow from small cities to middle and large cities than that flow in opposite direction, more from the west to the east than that from the east to the west, and more from enterprises to public utility than that from public utility to enterprises. B. The cost to cultivate high-level talent in characteristic industry town is very high, while the degree for marketized staffing of human resources is very low Compared with Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong, the natural environment in Shandong is much better, while the social environment, living and working conditions are relatively worse. Therefore, it is of great difficult to cultivate high-level talent, and costs much more money and time. Meanwhile, the marketization mechanism of the allocation of high-level talent in Shandong characteristic industry is not fully developed, which is still based on government-driven configuration mode, so the basic role of market in the allocation of human resources in characteristic industry, and the role of human resources in enterprises and public utility cannot give full play. C. High-level talent have low compensation and bad working condition in characteristic industry town At present, Shandong high-level talent in characteristic industry town are commonly unsatisfied with the working and living environment. Though a series of measures have been taken to improve the compensation and working conditions, such problems cannot be fundamentally solved due to the factors of geographical environment and economic development, especially the problem of low compensation. Therefore, it is difficult to retain high-level talent and introduce new ones. With the economic gap between Eastern and Western parts becoming larger and larger, the gaps in compensation and working conditions are consequently becoming larger as well, which results in high-level talent to flow into the better developed areas. D. The structure of high-level talent in characteristic industry town is too simple and lacks of leading character In the team of high-level talent in characteristic industry town, most people’s knowledge structure is simple, and most of them prefer theoretical theory, instead of the application of technology. In some characteristic industry towns, there is large gap between the capability of leaders and the need of the position; In others, there is large gap between the capability of senior operating talent and the real demand. From the view of diploma constitution among professional technicians, the number of people with bachelor’s degree is smaller, especially those with master’s degree or above. From the view of professional structure, excellent talent in characteristic industry are scarce, the academic ladder is not complete, the R&D and conversion capability is low, so there is little research efforts which have important impact both in and out of the country. With the rapid development of characteristic industry, there is an increasing demand of high-level talent, especially those in chemical, equipment manufacturing, textile and apparel and shoes (leather) , electronic information and home appliance, materials, ship and ocean engineering equipment, new materials, new energy and pharmacy industry. E. The evaluation system of high-level talent in characteristic industry town is not complete, and the building environment of talent team needs to be optimized There is no good evaluation system of high-level talent in Shandong characteristic industry town. Current evaluation system is basically based on the diploma and job titles.[5] On the determination of job titles, the rating standard always highlights the amount of papers and research expenses. In the evaluation of actual ability, it is generally based on the moral quality and the recognition by one’s leaders and the fellow colleagues, which lacks scientific and specific evaluation criteria. During the fruit evaluation, it puts emphasis on short-term achievements, and ignores the long-term and systematic research in characteristic industry. On the screen of excellent highlevel talent, there is lack of precise talent and performance assessment methods, which seriously affects the scientific and systematical administration on high-level talent. In addition, the growth and development environment of high-level talent in characteristic industry is very bad, where exists the “official orientation consciousness”. F. The incentive mechanism of high-level talent in characteristic industry town is not complete, which lacks of the growing platform for talent Although the level of economic development in Shandong is relatively high, it still puts emphasis on mental stimulation too much when comes to the rewards on high-level talent in characteristic industry town, which can not reflect the talent of the law of demand and the value they contributed. In fact, the material incentives always have been substituted by praise from leaders, reputation incentive and political honor. Even if there is some material incentives, it often is symbolistic, which cannot correctly reflect their real contribution and achievement. This kind of virtualized incentives can’t realize the effect of long-term and integrated stimulation, leading to the low activity, less progressive passion and creation, as well as the low working spirit. At the same time, the platform which bears the growth of high-level talent of the Shandong characteristic industry is in shortage and lack of competitive high-tech groups and research institutes with strong competitiveness in the country. Moreover, the amount and scale of key laboratories and experimental base is small, the level is not high, thus there are few significant scientific and technological projects and high-level scientific and technological achievements; the scale of enterprises are small and the technological content in their product is very low. The factors above have led to such a problem that Shandong has insufficient capability to bear and absorb the high-level talent in characteristic industry town. III. Measures to strengthen the team-building of highlevel talent in Shandong characteristic industry town A. Liberate the thoughts, establish the scientific talent philosophy, use new working idea to build the high-level talent team in characteristic industry town The concept of scientific development needs a scientific talent concept as backup.[3] We should set up a people-oriented concept and an idea that everyone can be a talent. The constraining of degrees, status and professions should be broken up, while morality, knowledge, capacity and working performance should be regarded as a major criteria to measure talent, so that people can be cultivated and developed freely. Work and personality should be respected, and not to blame the imperfect; creativity and success should be respected, while failure should be allowed; choices should be respected so that everyone’s values are represented under the guidance of more policies and fewer administration enforcement. Talent as the primary strategic resources should be fully developed, so that a good condition will be formed where everyone can make best use of their capacity. The awareness of reform should be stressed, and the mechanism of developing, attracting and making a good use of high-level talent in the characteristic industry town should be established. Strengthen the marketization of high-level talent and knowledge as capital, and develop and use high-level talent by market-oriented methods. B. Implement the fiscal and taxation policy to promote the priority of talent investment, and complete the mechanism of team-building of high-level talent in characteristic industry We should build a multiple talent investment mechanism, which takes the government investment as guideline, the investment of employer as the main body, and the social investment as supplement.[6] Government of all levels should take investment in the talent development as priority, ensuring the increases in the expenses in education and science and technology is higher than that of financial revenue. All financial bureaus should actively invest in the implementation of important projects to cultivate and attract talent, the rewarding of talent, and support talent’ development. Companies and social organizations should be encouraged to build funds to develop talent. Government should form preferential policy to encourage and support companies which need talent to increase their investment in talent. Social funds should be encouraged to donate for the talent innovation activities. We also should insist on the principle that talent shall obey the administration of CPC, invent the new methods about the administration, complete the managing mechanism of high-level talent in characteristic industry, which consists of macro control of the government, market allocation, and the self-management of employers, promote the managing function of high-level talent transform to create better developing environment and provide premium public service, and the operation mechanism and administration mode to be standard and in order, public and transparent, convenient and efficient. Perfect the policy system of team-building of high-level talent in characteristic industry, push the cooperation between industry and academy, and cultivate high-level talent in characteristic industry town. C. Complete personnel educational training system, increase efforts to train high-level talent in characteristics industry town First, around the advantageous resource exploitation and characteristic industry development in Shandong, the scientific research base and its achievements transformation base should be established[7], which guarantees enterprises and universities cooperate closely, promotes the interaction and integration between highlevel talent training in characteristic industry and research cooperation, and establishes the effective mechanism of gathering talent and training talent. And using it as a link, the intelligence flow should be expanded by employing consultants, exchanging lectures, collaborative research and joint development, taking the initiative to attract and support the national research institutes in other provinces, engineering and technology research centers, key laboratories and other research institutions to establish branches in Shandong. A number of projects should be select and applied to our State to be the platform of gathering talent and attracting high-level personnel to realize the effective communication of high-level talent in characteristics industry town. Second, the academic leaders training project should be started-up and implemented. According to Shandong characteristics of economic development needs, relying on the National New Century Millions of Talents Project, an innovative science and technology leading talent development program, the “ten-thousand people plan” of introduction of overseas innovation talents, the Qilu youth growth project and such academic leaders training project to promote the team building for high-level talent in characteristics industry town. Third, around the strategic adjustment of economic structure and dominant industry needs, the subjects and majors in colleges and universities should be adjusted to establish the higher education system adapting to the high-level talent needs in characteristics town. A complete system of high-level personnel training should be formed by further raising school standards and their competitiveness of the universities in Shandong. Fourth, focusing on cultivating high-level management personnel, relying on the wellknown enterprises at home and abroad, universities and training institutions, the cultivation of high-level management personnel in characteristics industry town should be strengthened. A management talent pool in characteristics industry town should be established as a part of entire high-level personnel development plan to improve the quality and management level of the highlevel talent in characteristics industry town. D. Innovate talent management system and improve the structure of high-level talent in characteristic industry town With the continuous development of characteristics industries in Shandong, the demand for high-level talent has increased. But the existing personnel management system has hindered the development of talent. Therefore the high-level talent management system in characteristics industry town should be reformed to establish a reasonable and orderly high-level talent management system in characteristics industry town[8], gradually break down the geographical, sectoral, industrial, urban and rural, identity and ownership restrictions, and streamline the flow channel of talent, in order to promote the highlevel talent flow from universities and research institutions to enterprises and the grassroots. The post appointment system should be progressively introduced and the high-level talent appointment mechanism which guarantees talent promoting and demoting, getting in or out should be established. The high-level talent structure in characteristics industry town should be adjusted accordingly in the general laws of the high-level talent growth, using young talents boldly. In the industries of food, chemistry, equipment manufacturing, textile, garment and shoes (leather), electronic information and home appliance, construction material, furniture, industrial arts, hardware, plastic, automobile and its fittings, boat and marine engineering, forging, new material, new energy, and pharmacy, the intelligence and experience advantages of the old scientists should be taken, letting them be the good mentor and fully exploiting the potential of high-level talent. E. Deepen the competition and incentive mechanisms that are conducive to the high-level talent in characteristic industry town to come into force Scientific and social talent evaluation and found system should be established based on the post duty, oriented by integrity, ability and performance.[9] To improve talent evaluation criteria, we should overcome the tendency of academic credentials only and papers only, not expect talent to be perfect, evaluate talent based on their performance and contribution, and adhere to cultivate talent in practice and motivate them to do pioneering work. Therefore, the strategies of improving the high-level talent income distribution system in characteristic industry town are as follows: Firstly, an allocating incentive mechanism should be established which takes the performance appraisal as the core, fully reflects the value of talent and encourages talent innovation. This mechanism should consider the features of high-level talent of Shandong characteristics industry town, adapt the market economic system, closely link with job performance, and encourage innovation and R&D of high-level talent in characteristics industry town. The allocation policy of that high-level talent in characteristics industry town participated by technology and scientific research should be made, which gives the stock right and share options incentive to the high-level talent who have made outstanding contributions in scientific research and commercialization, and give the tax preference on scientific research achievements transformation. The policy should encourage and regulate the professional and technical personnel to take part-time job and get according salary. Secondly, the incentive mechanism of high-level talent in characteristics town should be improved. The allocating policy should be in operation, which guarantees that the payment of highlevel talent is in accordant with their job, and that the first-class talent, first-class performance and first-class scientific research gains the first-class compensation. Thirdly, the high-level talent compensation system in characteristics town should be established, which adheres to the principle of combining the spiritual rewards with material incentives, improves the talent reward system which is oriented by government incentive and is leaded by employer and social forces. F. Update the standards and content of the personnel evaluation, and improve the evaluation mechanism of high-level talent in characteristic industry town. It is important to establish the new evaluation mechanism of high-level talent in characteristic industry town. In the evaluation standard, this evaluation mechanism should adhere to the principle of combining qualitative and quantitative evaluation criteria, change evaluating the degree and the position of high-level talent in characteristic industry town to evaluating their creative job and its results, and establish a set of scientific, accurate, objective, comprehensive evaluation index and parameter system which can embody the characteristics of different types of talent.[10]In the way of the evaluation, this mechanism should change to emphasis on research capacity assessment, take the performance evaluation of the key point, establish the recommendation system, the tenure target responsibility system, assessment system and personnel oversight accountability system which takes of knowledge, ability, professional, professionalism as the main elements, and establishes and improves the special evaluation method of the high-level talent in characteristic industry town, especially emphasizing on the acknowledgement of the experts. 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