Analysis on Management of Job Burnout of Counselors in Chinese Colleges Based on Game Theory

Authors

  • Xiaolei Wang School of Control Engineering, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
  • Ruoxuan Zhang School of Economics, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
  • Zengxin Li Department of Economics, Qinhuangdao Vocational and Technical College, Qinhuangdao, 066100, China
  • Junlong Chen School of Economics, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066004, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i17.16739

Abstract


In Chinese colleges, counselors need to simultaneously engage in teaching and management. The dual responsibilities make them probe to job burnout. To solve the problem, this paper puts forward assumptions about the behavior, income, and cost of counselors, and sets up a game model of burnout governance for college counselors. On this basis, the game between the college and counselors was analyzed under multiple scenarios: the two parties make completely independent decisions; the college is the first mover in the decision-making—— namely the equilibrium of the mixed strategy. Suppose a few colleges decide to improve the counselor management system. Based on the evolutionary game model, the authors discussed the influence of the improvement on all the colleges. The results show that the rational choices of the two parties should be “the college reforms the counselor management system”, while “the counselors work actively and avoid job burnout”; if a few colleges decide to improve the counselor management system, all the other colleges will follow suit, which leads to an improvement of efficient incentive system for college counselors. The research results provide a good reference for the burnout governance of college counselors.

Author Biographies

Xiaolei Wang, School of Control Engineering, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066004, China

Xiaolei Wang was born in Jilin Province, China in 1985. She received bache-lor degree in economics from Jilin University in 2007, and received master de-gree in economics from Jilin University in 2011. Now she is a lecturer working at School of Control Engineering of Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao. She is the author of several educational papers. Her main research area is higher educa-tion.

Ruoxuan Zhang, School of Economics, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066004, China

Ruoxuan Zhang was born in Zhejiang Province, China in 2000. Since 2018, she has studied finance at Northeastern University Qinhuangdao as an under-graduate. Her research interests include related applications of game theory, fi-nance and economics.

Zengxin Li, Department of Economics, Qinhuangdao Vocational and Technical College, Qinhuangdao, 066100, China

Zengxin Li was born in Henan Province, China in 1981. She received her B.S. degree in economics in 2003 and M.S. degree in Management in 2009, from Northeastern University. She is working in Department of Economics at Qinhuangdao Vocational and Technical College as Associate Professor. Her re-search areas of interest are business management and teaching reform of higher education.

Junlong Chen, School of Economics, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066004, China

Junlong Chen was born in Shandong Province, China in 1984. He studied at Ji-lin University from 2004 to 2013, and received bachelor, master and doctor de-grees in economics. He is an associate professor in the School of Economics of Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao. He is the author of four books, and more than 60 academic papers. His main research interest includes public policy and higher education.

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Published

2020-09-11

How to Cite

Wang, X., Zhang, R., Li, Z., & Chen, J. (2020). Analysis on Management of Job Burnout of Counselors in Chinese Colleges Based on Game Theory. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(17), pp. 207–220. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i17.16739

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