TTLV: Nâng cao năng lực tổ chức NCKH của Trường Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh

INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Full name: Nguyen Chi Phuong 2. Sex: Male 3. Date of birth: December 3, 1976; 4. Place of birth: Tien Giang Province, Vietnam 5. Admission decision Number: 1376/2007/QD - XHNV - KH & SĐH, signed by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences & Humanities, Hanoi National University dated on October 29, 2008. 6. Changes in academic process: no changes. 7. Official Thesis Title: “Enhancing the Scientific Research Organizing Competence of the Open University - Ho Chi Minh City” 8. Major: Management Science and Technology; 9. Code: 60.34.72 10. Supervisor: Associate Prof. Dr. Pham Xuan Hang, University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Vietnam National University Hanoi. 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: The two main functions of a university are doing research and training. Scientific research is a compulsory activity to universities. To help teaching function work well, teaching staff has to do scientific research. In universities, teaching staff is the main research human resource. In order to make scientific research activities operate effectively, Scientific managers must find out a method of organizing scientific research activities that can synthesize and make full use of the four resources: Human Resourse, Financial Resource, Material Resource and Informatic Resource. Amongst these four resources, the human resourse plays the most important role, the other resources faciliate the functions of human resourse. In Vietnam, the Communist Party and the Governement are very interested in promoting scientific research activities, especially in universities. There are many policies that encourage the development of scientific research in universities. However, up to present, the organization of scientific research activities of universities in Vietnam has not failed to meet their goals as expected. The Open University-Ho Chi Minh City has not fulfilled its scientific duties as expected. Its teaching staff has not performed their scientific tasks well. The main reasons are: The scientific strategy of the University has not been planned in detail for execution. The university’s administrative system could not create a professional environment for scientific research. The four resources cold not catch up with the requirements of development of the university’s training scale and its scientific research activities. Based on the results of research, the thesis proposes three main solutions for promoting scientific research organizing competence of the Open University, HCMC. They are: (1) Administrative solutions; (2) Financial solutions; and (3) Creating and executing a research university culture. 12. Practical applicability: The thesis will be used as useful scientific document for the Open University, Ho Chi Minh City to make policies for enhancing its scientific research organizing Competence. 13. Further research directions: further study on this subject. 14. Thesis-related publications: None