Annual Report 1993-94

42 新僱用條款 New Conditions of Service 大學招募教師，一向採用公開招聘方式，在國際學術界尋找最合適的人選。過去一 年間大學更革新了部分僱用條款，以進一步確保教師質素。 首先，自九三年八月一日起，中大新聘教職員（包括按甲類服務條件受僱之教師或 職員）的試用期，一律由三年改爲五年，讓該等教職員具充裕時間作出表現，方接受實 任考核。試用期滿三年後，他們可申請提早考核，校方亦可按情況提前考核。 其次，該等教職員（臨牀醫學教師及講座教授除外）的薪級表，由受聘、實任或升 級之日起計算三年後，設浮動關限，以激勵他們維持高水準表現。 另一方面，校方獲政府首肯，在一九九三年中通過新的醫學院臨牀教職員僱用條 款；受聘條款與醫院管理局的醫生相同。已受聘之臨牀教職員可選擇維持其原有僱用條 款，或轉以新僱用條款服務；新聘之臨牀教職員則全部以新條款僱用。此舉旨在改善臨 牀教職員的招募情況，並防止人才流失。截至九三至九四年度終，約有六成原任臨牀教 職員選擇新的僱用條款。 Recruitment of academic staff continued to be conducted on an international basis, and in order to enhance quality control a number of changes in conditions of service for staff were introduced during the year. First, with effect from 1st August 1993, the probationary period for all new teaching and non-teaching staff on Terms of Service (A) and equivalent terms has been extended from three to five years. This would allow new appointees more time to demonstrate the progress in their performance before assessment for substantiation. Accelerated review for substantiation might be initiated by the appointees or the University upon completion of the third year or any time thereafter. Secondly, a floating efficiency bar was introduced to the salary scales of all such appointees (except those on the clinical salary scales in the Faculty of Medicine and appointees at professorial rank) at the end of the third year from the date of appointment, or from substantiation of appointment, or from promotion. This is to encourage appointees to achieve consistently high standards in their performance. On the other hand, with government consent, the University approved in mid-1993 a new set of terms of service for clinical academic appointees. Serving clinical staff were allowed to choose to retain their existing University terms of service or to change over to the new terms which are identical to those enjoyed by doctors in the employ of the Hospital Authority (HA). New clinical appointees would be offered only HA-equivalent terms of service. The purpose of the whole exercise was to facilitate recruitment and retention of clinical academic staff. Around 60 per cent of relevant serving staff had opted for the new HA-equivalent terms when the year 1993-94 ended.