Research of Incentive and Constraint Effect of Chinese Civil Servant Salary System on Grassroots Civil Servants

Chinese civil servant force has always been in the structure of "pyramid", that is, 60% of them are grassroots and 90% of them are under department grade; moreover, a lot of grassroots civil servants are vice department level after working several decades. Though Chinese civil servant salary system has been improved and completed constantly, problems like inadequate incentive and constraint effect remain. Hence, this paper, by taking Chinese grassroots civil servants as objects of study, has measured the incentive and constraint effect of Chinese civil servant salary system on grassroots civil servants by means of questionnaire survey and statistical analysis. Moreover, this paper has concluded factors that affect incentive and constraint effect on Chinese grassroots civil servants in Chinese civil servant salary system according to result of the measurement. The study shows that: the incentive and constraint effect of Chinese civil servant salary system on grassroots civil servants is weak in general and the overall satisfaction of grassroots civil servants about the salary system is low; there is no obvious relation among the degree of hardworking, work performance and salary levels of grassroots civil servants and its incentive and constraint effect is relative low; education level, seniority and position level of grassroots civil servants are positively related to salary level, which proves again that Chinese civil servant salary system is oriented by position level and has weak incentive and constraint effect on grassroots civil servants.