Investigation report on the benefit evaluation of grass-roots political work in border defense forces

Political work is the lifeline of public security frontier forces, and the efficiency of political work is the vitality of political work. The benefit of grass-roots political work of public security frontier troops is directly related to the improvement of combat effectiveness and the completion of various tasks, the prestige and image of political work of public security frontier troops, and the selection, training and use of grass-roots political cadres. Therefore, it is of great practical significance and urgency to strengthen the research on the benefit evaluation of grass-roots political work of public security frontier forces and help people get out of various misunderstandings in practical work. However, the investigation shows that there are some misunderstandings in the benefit evaluation of grass-roots political work of public security frontier forces, which greatly hinder the development and effectiveness of political work and must be solved.

First, the misunderstanding of the benefit evaluation of grass-roots political work of public security frontier forces at present.

(A) there are misunderstandings in the evaluation criteria

The first is based on the evaluation results. In other words, the quality of a unit's political work is judged only by the level of political work assessment results. The second is based on your own workload. The quality and effect of political work are judged by how many activities, talks, briefings, articles forwarded by superiors, writing experience and reading notes. Regard the process of political work as the benefit of political work. The third is to complete the task as the standard. That is, simply taking the completion of military training, law enforcement and other tasks as the standard of "good" and "effective" political work. If the task is completed well, it is all due to political work. If the task is not completed well, it is judged that the political work is not done well. The fourth is to take the leader's words and deeds as the standard. That is, a leader's subjective understanding of the political work of his unit is taken as a measure of the effectiveness of political work. So there was the phenomenon that "the king of Chu starved to death in the palace with a thin waist". Of course, the above standards reflect some aspects of the political work of a certain aspect or unit from a certain angle, but they are not comprehensive and have a certain one-sidedness.

(B) there are misunderstandings in the object of cognitive evaluation

The first is the halo effect. In other words, the staff responsible for evaluation only judge by the feelings formed by the evaluation object in the past. I am used to wearing "colored glasses" when assessing the grassroots. Based on my subjective impression, "a good one, a bad one". The second is the first impression. Examiners often make judgments based on their first feelings about the assessed object, and "follow the feelings". This situation tends to distort the results. The third is the clue deviation. Generally speaking, clue deviation means that some people or units often disguise some illusions to cover up their real situation. I have encountered this phenomenon in my research. For example, a detachment made an unannounced visit to a squadron before evaluating a special education, and found that the unit leaders paid insufficient attention to educational activities and acted slowly. A few days later, the detachment organized an assessment team to check, only to find that all records, including the instructor's lesson plans and the notes of officers and men, were available, and all kinds of registration accounts were "done" intact. If these situations are not grasped in time, they are easily confused by illusions. The fourth is stereotype. It means to look at people from an old perspective, act according to old experience, and evaluate people unrealistically. For example, when a detachment conducted a year-end assessment of the political work of grass-roots units, an advanced unit registered by the superior did not rank first as expected, but it was still reported as an advanced model and approved when it was submitted to the advanced unit. This has caused serious adverse effects, such as "the same thing can't be done well, and the same thing can't be done", "being willing to be an ox and a horse, raising a liar as a horse" and other complaints spread smoothly throughout the whole army, which had a huge negative impact on the ideological and work style construction of the army.

(C) There are misunderstandings in adhering to the evaluation principle

Mainly manifested as "four light and four heavy" tendency. First, pay more attention to tangible benefits than intangible benefits. In practical work, examiners are more interested in tangible things, such as various registration ledgers, and basically ignore intangible products that are not easy to detect, such as the ideological reflection and mental state of officers and men. For example, the ideological enlightenment, spiritual shock and spiritual baptism of officers and men have not been carefully investigated. The second is to emphasize direct benefits and ignore indirect benefits. For example, organizing officers and men to participate in voluntary tree planting only pays attention to how many trees are planted, but ignores the indirect benefits of organizing tree planting activities to cultivate officers and men's spiritual civilization. Third, emphasize short-term interests and ignore long-term interests. For example, when the police station carries out an educational activity to rectify the style of work, it only sees the actual changes in the army now, and its influence on the future is not counted. The fourth is to emphasize local interests and ignore the overall interests. The most common thing in practical work is that leaders only pay attention to the evaluation results of an advanced unit or a unit with a number in mind, and don't think much about the overall effect of the army, just trying to get by, not too hard.

(d) The feedback of evaluation results is misunderstood.

First, I dare not give feedback to the competent leaders or departments for fear of being criticized, especially when there are problems or flaws in the work of the assessed object. I'm worried that the leaders will make them bear the responsibility of poor guidance and tend to report good news instead of bad news. Second, I don't want to feedback the evaluation results to the masses of the evaluated unit. They think that active feedback is beneath the status of the leading organs, and they would rather let the evaluation results sleep in the filing cabinet than actively give feedback to the masses of the evaluated units. Third, the feedback method is simple and rude, the attitude is not correct enough, condescending, and the speech is reprimanded.

Second, the main countermeasures to correct the misunderstanding of grass-roots political work benefit evaluation of public security frontier forces

To evaluate the benefits of grass-roots political work in frontier defense forces, we must understand the characteristics of the benefits of grass-roots political work. These characteristics are manifested in four aspects: first, the unity of recessive and dominant; Second, the unity of immediacy and gradualism; Third, the unity of locality and wholeness; Fourth, the unity of direct and indirect. This determines that when evaluating the effectiveness of a unit's political work, we should fully carry out the evaluation according to the characteristics of four aspects, that is, we must establish scientific evaluation standards, adhere to correct evaluation principles, adopt correct evaluation methods and establish a stable evaluation system. Only in this way can we effectively correct misunderstandings and deviations in our work.

(1) Scientific evaluation criteria must be established.

Political work in the army is the fundamental guarantee to realize the Party's absolute leadership over the army and perform its functions. The efficiency of political work of public security frontier forces must be based on improving combat effectiveness and ensuring the completion of tasks. This is the standard of combat effectiveness. Because the combat effectiveness standard is a comprehensive index, measuring the benefit of political work by the combat effectiveness standard is mainly an organic combination of three indicators: political and ideological quality, organizational integration degree and task performance. Therefore, when investigating the benefits of grass-roots political work, we must adhere to the following standards:

1. Grassroots officers and men have excellent political and ideological quality. (1) Strong political conviction. It is to test and evaluate the officers and men's firm belief in Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and "Theory of Three Represents" theory, their understanding of the party's line, principles and policies, their recognition of the national political system, their grasp of the development direction of the public security frontier defense forces in the new century and new stage, their understanding of the international and domestic situation, their conscious compliance with national laws and regulations and the party's policies, and their attitude towards wrong thoughts and behaviors. (2) Excellent ideological quality. We should evaluate the effectiveness of grass-roots political work by examining whether officers and men's personal ideal goals and life pursuits meet the needs of society, whether their service attitude is correct, whether they can correctly handle the contradiction between personal interests and collective interests, their attitude towards honor and advanced figures, and their obedience to orders, commands and consciously observing military discipline. Instead of just looking at whether you can recite political theory articles, how many activities you have engaged in, and how much experience you have written. (3) noble moral sentiments. Including the interpersonal relationship between officers and men, observing social morality, life and spiritual pursuit, personal value choice, bitter optimism, outlook on honor and disgrace, outlook on beauty and ugliness, outlook on marriage and love, unity and mutual assistance, etc. See if the sentiments of officers and men are noble. This aspect is often easily overlooked in evaluation.

2. Grassroots organizations are well integrated. (1) Party branch construction is strong. Organize and improve, implement the division of leadership under the unified collective leadership of Party committees (branches), be responsible for and adhere to the party's democratic life system, unite within the leadership team, be honest and self-disciplined, have a correct style of work, and adhere to democratic centralism. Team building in party member is in good condition. (2) The quality of cadres is high. The political and ideological quality of cadres, the degree of knowledge, specialization and youthfulness of cadres, the implementation of cadre work system, the degree of service and work responsibility of cadres, the situation of leading by example, honesty and self-discipline, and the relationship between officers and men in the army are all in good condition. (3) Mass organizations are full of vitality. * * * Youth League organizations, military representatives' meetings and military committees are well organized and often carry out activities, and various systems are effectively implemented, and the roles of the two mass organizations are well played.

3. Significant achievements have been made in grass-roots work. Grass-roots units have made outstanding achievements in training, duty and combat, and officers and men have excellent tactical and technical level, and their performance and achievements in participating in emergency rescue and disaster relief, national economic construction and social welfare construction activities are remarkable. It is one-sided and undesirable to comprehensively examine the performance of grass-roots work and simply take the performance of an assessment, the evaluation of a leader, the completion of training and duty and other tasks as the criteria for evaluating political work.

In a word, the three basic indicators of the effect of grass-roots political work in border defense forces are a unified whole, which are interrelated and mutually restricted. To measure the effect of political work in any unit or at any stage, we should generally start from these three aspects. Ignoring one aspect or unilaterally emphasizing one aspect will make the effect evaluation of political work inaccurate.

(2) Scientific evaluation methods must be adopted.

To accurately evaluate the benefits of grass-roots political work, qualitative and quantitative methods should be adopted. Specifically, there are mainly the following methods:

1. System analysis method. The political work of public security frontier troops is a systematic project, which includes five basic elements: subject, object, content, method and environment. The benefit of political work is the result of the interaction of various elements in the system. The principle of system integrity and correlation tells us that when evaluating the benefits of grass-roots political work, we should not only analyze political work as an organic whole, but also analyze various factors of political work together, and we should not pay attention to one or several factors in isolation. It is necessary to analyze the subject, object, content, method and environment of political work, and find out their unique functions and mutual constraints in improving the efficiency of political work. Only by linking the five basic elements of political work, comprehensively analyzing and evaluating the benefits from all angles can we fully understand and grasp the benefits of political work and make an objective evaluation. In practical work, we must get out of the misunderstanding that only one aspect is concerned and other aspects are ignored or separated.

2. Vertical and horizontal comparison method. There are three basic forms to evaluate the benefit of grass-roots political work by comparative method. The first is the longitudinal comparison method. That is to compare the political work of a grass-roots unit in history and analyze the development and changes of political work benefits in a certain period. The purpose of this comparison is to measure the process and degree of improving the efficiency of a unit's political work from a historical perspective and time sequence. The second is the horizontal comparison method. That is, the comparison of benefits between units, and it is the comparison of the same time or the same problem. The purpose of this comparison is to measure the degree of improving the efficiency of political work in grass-roots units from the perspective of cross-section. The third is the vertical and horizontal comparison method. That is, the vertical comparison and horizontal comparison are organically combined, and a unit is compared vertically and horizontally at the same time, and the benefits of political work are comprehensively evaluated in the vertical comparison and horizontal comparison. Each of the three forms has its own advantages, and which form to take depends on the actual needs of political work benefit evaluation. This method is helpful to eliminate the misunderstanding of evaluators on the evaluation object, such as halo effect, first impression, stereotype, clue deviation and so on.

3. The law of unity of knowledge and action. "Knowledge" in political work mainly refers to people's cognition of Marxist scientific theory, the party's line, principles and policies. "Behavior" refers to people's behaviors and actions, that is, people's actual activities to understand and transform the world. The unified method of "knowledge" and "behavior" is a unified method to examine "knowledge" and "behavior". Unifying "knowing" and "doing" can effectively solve the phenomenon of only looking at the test results without looking at the actual results, and get out of the misunderstanding of simplifying the evaluation criteria.

4. Benefit analysis method. The application of benefit analysis method in the evaluation of grassroots political work is to analyze the relationship between input and output in political work. Benefit is the ratio of effect plus income and the product of time spent multiplied by input intensity. The income of political work is not only related to the work effect and income, but also related to the time and strength invested. The application of benefit evaluation method is of great practical significance to correct the misunderstanding that "input is output, workload is standard, leaders' words and deeds are standard" and "just cultivate, regardless of harvest" in evaluation work. It is a sharp weapon to overcome formalism and fraud, and a refreshing agent to eliminate the "unable to evaluate" haze of political work benefits. Of course, when using the benefit analysis method, we should prevent the tendency of deliberately not investing or reducing investment simply for the pursuit of benefit. In addition, there are acceptance analysis method, total score addition method, weighted average method and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. I won't go into details here.

(C) We must adhere to the correct evaluation principles.

1. Adhere to the principle of combining spiritual achievements with material achievements. This is determined by the unity of directness and indirectness of political work interests. The spiritual achievements are mainly manifested in the political and ideological quality, moral level, mental outlook and organizational level of the public security frontier troops. Material achievements are reflected in the technical level of officers and men and the completion of various tasks. Adhere to the unity of "two achievements", we must measure both spiritual indicators and material indicators. We can't think that the spiritual achievement is good, and the material achievement must be good. Similarly, we can't think that a good military is necessarily a good political thought. Therefore, to assess the effectiveness of political work in practical work, it is necessary to combine the ideological quality of officers and men with the achievements made in military training, guardianship and duty, law enforcement and case handling, and participation in the "three civilizations".

2. Adhere to the principle of combining short-term effects with long-term effects. This is determined by the characteristics of the unity of immediacy and gradualism in the benefits of political work. It is necessary to measure both the current achievements and the long-term gains of political work. If we only see the immediate effect and ignore the long-term effect, we can't correctly measure the actual effect of political work. At the same time, it will also encourage quick success and formalism.

3. Adhere to the principle of combining individual effect with collective effect. This is determined by the local and holistic characteristics of the benefits of political work. To evaluate and measure the benefits of political work, we must adhere to the principle of unity of individual effect and collective effect. To adhere to the unity of locality and wholeness of political work benefits, we should focus on the collective effect, start with the individual effect, organically combine the two effects for comprehensive investigation, and prevent generalizations or partiality. On the one hand, collective effectiveness cannot be used to cover up individual ineffectiveness. On the other hand, individual ineffectiveness cannot be used to deny collective effectiveness.

4. Adhere to the principle of combining qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis. This is determined by the characteristics of the unity of recessive and dominant interests in political work. In the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the benefits of grass-roots political work in public security frontier forces, qualitative analysis should be the main method, and on this basis, it should be quantified as much as possible to ensure the accuracy of the measurement of the benefits of political work.

(d) A stable evaluation system must be established.

System is more reliable than consciousness. At present, in addition to establishing and improving the evaluation organization and leadership system and evaluation summary system, the following two systems should also be improved:

1. Establish a feedback system for benefit evaluation results. The purpose of political work benefit evaluation is to improve and enhance political work and mobilize the enthusiasm of the subject and object of political work. Therefore, the results of political work benefit evaluation can not only be stored as data in the filing cabinet or only a few people who participate in the evaluation know. It is necessary to give timely feedback to relevant personnel and units through various means to let them know about the assessment. Adhere to the feedback system of benefit evaluation results, and the most important thing is that the feedback should be timely. It is necessary to formulate specific systems and regulations to ensure timely feedback on the specific conditions and opinions of the assessed units.

2. Establish a system linking evaluation results with rewards and punishments. Reward and punishment is an incentive mechanism to evaluate the benefits of political work. Clear responsibilities and clear rewards and punishments are important principles to avoid inefficient work of "more input and less output".

Whether the benefit evaluation of grass-roots political work of public security frontier troops is linked with rewards and punishments directly affects its orientation and benefit play. Practice has proved that the evaluation results are not linked with rewards and punishments, which is quite different. Only by linking evaluation with rewards and punishments can we strengthen the sense of responsibility of staff, mobilize the enthusiasm of the broad masses of officers and men to participate, and enhance their authority and binding force. Otherwise, the evaluation may go through the motions and lose its due motivation. In practical work, it is necessary to effectively link the selection of advanced evaluation units with closely related interests such as cadre selection and appointment, promotion, meritorious service and awards, and give full play to the leverage of benefit evaluation in grassroots political work in frontier defense.