The Remuneration System in General Education as an Institutional Trap

ABSTRACT “The remuneration system in general education as an institutional trap" The master's dissertation on “The remuneration system in general education as an institutional trap” has a research character and is a study whose purpose is to identify signs of institutional traps in the remuneration system in general education in the post-Soviet period. The paper analyzes the regulatory legal acts of the federal and regional levels governing the transformation of the remuneration system in general education in the post-Soviet period. The advantages and disadvantages of payment models for pedagogical work are determined. The definition of "institutional trap" is considered and the boundaries of the concept are established in the context of post-Soviet reform of the remuneration system in general education. In the empirical part of the dissertation, norm-forming factors and the effects of fixing ineffective sustainable norms in post-Soviet remuneration models are determined, the ideas study’s results of the educational institutions' teachers and heads about the manifestations of institutional traps in the remuneration system in general education are presented, and ways out of the manifested trap are proposed. The novelty of this study is to increase scientific knowledge about the definition of "institutional trap" in the context of the remuneration’s institution and to consider post-Soviet teachers’ wage models in general education through the prism of this phenomenon. Keywords: REMUNERATION SYSTEM, GENERAL EDUCATION, INSTITUTIONAL TRAP, FACTORS, EFFECTS, TEACHERS, LEADERS, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, SINGLE TARIFF NETWORK, NEW REMUNERATION SYSTEM, EFFECTIVE CONTRACT, POST-SOVIET PERIOD.