Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 59-77.

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Constructing the Idea of Organization:Thought Self-Check and Organizational Review of Cadres (1952-1960)

ZHANG Jing   

  1. Department of Sociology, Peking University
  • Online:2017-09-20 Published:2017-09-20
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    This paper was phased result of Ministry of Education Peking University Sociology Base Project:"Social Governance in Development:Comparison of Ideas, Knowledge and Methods"

Abstract:

This paper explores the history of state power construction, focusing on the period of regime change and how the state constructs a new governance structure, according to the ideological examination, work report, year-end summary, organization and examination report of some cadres in the 1950s.The focus of the article is to understand how the state constructs a new governance structure during the period of regime change. This paper shows that the state uses a unique organizational power to carry out a series of administrative activities for the cadres and groups:the cadres take turns to labor, carry out self-thinking clean up, organize the group to exchange learning activities, implement and systematically organize the activities of the trial and handling procedures, the trial of the cadres of the ideological performance of the classification, the formation of written records, the establishment of a new assessment of the behavior of the cadre, in order to institutionalize the organization of personnel work for the preparation of the basis.These processes have laid the foundations of the initial institutionalization of the cadre selection and management system, followed by the development of the principles that have been consolidated and refined. The obvious effect of this process is that the new behavior requirements and employment standards are widely practiced in the urban cadres and the new standards have been used to shape the cadres' own concerns and their work ethic, and the cadres and the new organizations have been gradually constructed. Relationship, and finally established the organizational concept in the use of cadres in the principle of status.The significance of these activities for the understanding of the source of social governance system is that they have not only laid an organizational basis for the establishment of organizational governance authority, but also have far-reaching influence on the behavior of cadres and the overall characteristics of expression.

Key words: the state building, organizational power, work ethic of cadres, organizational concept