Research on the Strategic Management of Faculty Stability in Universities under China's "Double First-Class" Initiative

Yuzhi Han

doi:10.70088/3mw52363

Authors

Yuzhi Han Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70088/3mw52363

Keywords:

higher education, faculty stability, brain drain, strategic management, talent management

Abstract

The "Double First-Class" initiative is a major strategic deployment in China's higher education sector, aimed at promoting the connotative development of universities and enhancing their international competitiveness. Talent is the primary resource and key support for achieving these construction goals. However, the advancement of this initiative has highlighted the problem of the disorderly flow of high-level academic talents. Eastern universities, leveraging economic advantages, have created a "siphon effect," causing severe brain drain in central and western institutions. Frequent, interest-driven job changes by high-level talents disrupt research teams, interrupt discipline construction, and undermine the balanced distribution of higher education resources, contradicting the initiative's original intent. Traditional management models relying on contract constraints offer only post-event control and fail to ensure talent stability. Therefore, the strategic management of faculty stability must transcend conventional approaches by integrating talent team construction into the overall university development strategy. This involves achieving value symbiosis between talents and universities through top-level design, systematic policy implementation, and long-term mechanism construction. In this context, "talent team stability" implies a reasonable structure, orderly flow, and alignment with the university's discipline construction plan, rather than absolute immobility. Furthermore, "strategic management" entails forward-looking planning, systematic layout, and dynamic adjustment to optimize talent resource allocation. This study explores these dimensions, offering a framework to address current talent flow challenges and promote the sustainable development of universities in alignment with national strategic needs.

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