The Personnel System for Talent Development in Higher Education (eng)

This book explores innovative talent development models to improve the quality of university education and long-term human resource development. Additionally, it investigates factors and issues that affect the effectiveness of faculty appointments, compensation, cultivation, retention, and performance assessment. The book is a useful resource for scholars and researchers in the field of comparative higher education, administrators and stakeholders in education management, and graduate students majoring in higher education. Ultimately, it assists education leaders, policymakers, and human resources practitioners in establishing a strategic personnel system for talent development.

Yao-Ting Sung is Chair Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling and serves as Executive Vice President of National Taiwan Normal University. He has received several awards for excellence in academic achievements, including the Da-Yu Wu Memorial Award, three Outstanding Research Awards issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, the Distinguished International Alumnus Award 2018 by the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) 2017–2018 from Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the USA. His research focuses on educational psychology, psychological and educational assessment, computer-assisted learning and testing, as well as Chinese text analysis. Currently, he is Director of the National Assessment Center for Education.

An-Pan Lin is Professor in the Department of Civic Education and Leadership and serves as Secretary General for the Office of the Secretariat, at National Taiwan Normal University. He graduated from the University of Regensburg, Germany. His teaching interests are in civil law and human rights education. His current research topics include institutional research on administrative effectiveness and university social responsibility, leadership styles and staff performance, and organizational citizenship behavior.

Mao-Chiao Chi is Director of the Human Resources Office at National Taiwan Normal University and Senior Civil Servant. She has worked in the field of education and personnel administration for more than 30 years and has served as Personnel Director of five national universities, with excellent personnel professional experience. During the service period, she was awarded the Personnel Professional Medals by the Executive Yuan, the Outstanding Personnel Officer of the Ministry of Education and the Executive Yuan, and devoted herself to the research of human resources development. She has also served as Guest Editor for the Journal of Research in Education Sciences. Currently, she is also Doctoral Candidate in the Graduate Institute and Department of Business Administration, National Chung Cheng University. Her research interests include human resource management, civil service personnel system, and educational policy.

Ming-Huei Cheng is Post-doctoral Fellow in the Office of Human Resources, National Taiwan Normal University (NUTU). Before her current position at NTNU, she was full-time Associate Professor at Nanjing Audit University in mainland China (2014–2018) and Post-doctoral Fellow in National Taiwan University (2018–2020). Her research interests include public and personnel management, citizen engagement, public finance, and policy communication. She is actively involved in public and citizen collaborative projects and research, including energy transition, integrity government, national pension reform, and vacation allowance, in various fields. She has also received several awards for excellence in academic achievement, including the Taiwanese Political Science Association Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, the New Taipei City Government Excellence Research Project Award, and the Taiwan Association for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Public Policy and Management, Shih-Hsin University.