The Office of Human Resources deals mainly with administrative record-keeping regarding the university staff.
It is divided into the Director's Office, Management Planning Section and Vocational Training and Welfare Section. Characteristics: 1.Continue processing the institution of research compensation: (1)Compensations from National Science Council: Apply with the rules each year, there were 675 people awarded from 1992 to 2000 academic year. (2)Compensations inside the campus: a. Applying procedures for full-time teachers’ research compensations: Including research compensation fee, class-hour reduction, or direct promotion. Each year the compensation fees are NT$140,000 for professors, NT$120,000 for vice-professors, NT$100,000 for assistant-professors, NT$8,000 for lecturers. Each year there was much than NT$10,000,000 listed on the budget. There were 2,501 people acquiring the compensations with this procedure from 1979 educational year till now. b. Appraising procedure for teachers’ excellent performances: Processing recommendations and selections in each May. The reward will be at least much than NT$100,000 for each one, and proclaimed in the public ceremony. There were 92 people awarded from 1989 academic year till now. c. Procedure for compensating teachers’ display of dissertations: The dissertation, which passes the review of Academic Examination Committee could receive 80% of the fee for demonstration on national, international periodicals. The limit of compensation will be NT$10,000. d. Procedure for compensating teachers’ participation in international academic meetings: People who pass the review of International Communication Committee will receive expense of visiting work in Taiwan, compensation for expense of travel, living, and registration abroad. e. Procedure for compensating full-time teachers’ participation in academic meetings held in Mainland China: People who pass the review of special academic team from both sides of Taiwan Strait will receive the compensation for expense of travel, living and registration. f. Establishment of research professor and rule of compensation: Each week research professors should teach three class hours, or one class (not including experimental, practicing class), will not receive extra-hour pay. University will supply advanced their need for space, humans, and materials on research. Their applications of leave will face prior consideration to ease the research abroad. Their times of application for participation in international academic committee abroad, and compensation will not be restrained. There were 17 people awarded since implemented in 1994 academic year. g. 12th Clause of Rules for teachers’ hiring and salary says: Full-time teachers who are full-time professors or vice-professors consecutively for 10 years and have great performances on teaching or research could receive 6-year long-term employment. People performing outstandingly on teaching or research could receive permanent employment. h. Editing “Rules of compensation for teaching materials" publication and production: Compensating teachers to edit textbooks, computer multi-media materials, compact software, materials of long-distance teaching. Budget will be listed every academic year, and the compensation will be from NT$50,000 to NT$100,000 according to applied cases. 2.Adopting high-diploma policy: TKU has adopted high-diploma policy since 1972 academic year, those who have PhD degree would receive extra-pay. This policy was revised in 2000 academic year: Vice-professors (including above) who have PhD degree will receive NT$7,000 additionally, and those who have received PhD extra-pay will take it continually. 3.Leaves of academic research: Full-time professors qualified to conditions listed below can apply leaves of academic research: (1)Under 62 years old. (2)Those who have taught 7 years accumulating till the date of activating leave. (3)Those who have acquired 5 times the university’s research compensation or NSC’s top-level research compensation during the tenures. 4.Teachers' institution of plea and bargain, and actual implementation: TKU passed the "Points for establishing teachers' appeal review committee" in November 1994, and established teachers’ appeal review committee to receive teachers’ plea and bargain. Through the resolution papers discussed by the committee, all the appealing cases could be remedied properly by the related units of university. 5.Information training: Cooperating with the revolution of administrative information, and the implementation of TKU's Third Wave, in each academic year school will arrange computer classes in the information center for training teachers and employees about computer professional techniques to enhance teaching quality and administrative ability. 6.Supply further-education environment for employees: According to their vocational need, employees can propose auditory classes following “procedure of further education” to fulfill professional knowledge and techniques. 7.Establish mutual-reliance committee for employees' benefits: Teachers and employees can establish “mutual reliance committee for employees’ benefits” to process scholarships for employees’ children, traveling, cultural and art activities, and compensations for marriage, procreation, illness, retirement, resignation, and death of relatives.