{"id":2118,"date":"2019-11-10T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T22:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/managementandthearts.com\/5e\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2019-11-10T17:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T22:23:59","slug":"management-and-the-arts-5e-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/managementandthearts.com\/5e\/blog\/management-and-the-arts-5e-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Management and the Arts 5e – November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Working in Museums and CSR\/CCI.<\/em> I thought these two different topics might be interesting to ponder. The first focuses on the good and bad of the professionalization of the arts workplace. The second topic looks at a wide range of issues connected to the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Community Involvement (CSR\/CCI). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Museum\nWork and the Mundane Parts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seema Roa\u2019s short article from the Museum 2.0<\/a> blog focuses on working in museums that don\u2019t always do a great job of aligning people, projects, and goals. \u201cThe big questions are, how can people make changes to improve the working conditions, and how can leaders help organizations run better?\u201d While the arts workplace may be increasingly more professionalized, that doesn’t mean it is in sync with the leadership dynamics in an organization. One example that demonstrates this issue is more common than we would like to admit: spending excessive amounts of time on reports that are not acted upon. Capturing data, analyzing it, reporting findings, and making recommendations that never seem to be followed is frustrating and demoralizing for staff and demonstrates potential leadership challenges in an organization. Given how much work needs to be done, can we afford to squander time like this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Community\nInvolvement (CSR\/CCI) in 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report (PDF link is below) from around 2015 offers us a chance to reflect on the current status of CSR and CCI in America. Discussions could be incorporated into topics related to chapters 11 and 12 – marketing and fundraising. For example, questions could be posed about how well CSR\/CCI is working in your community? Or, trends in CSR\/CCI could be examined in light of the Giving USA 2019<\/a> report on corporate support. The CSR\/CCI report conclusion notes that \u201cmany corporations are re-orienting their philanthropic giving to focus more strategically on community development and social issues.\u201d Does that statement align with what has been going on in your community? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope these topics are of some value to you as you grapple with issues related to the evolving field of arts management and managing in the arts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best wishes, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Byrnes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Museum Work<\/a> <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Seema Rao, Museum 2.0, November 5, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, we\u2019re talking about work. Not the work we do,\nbut the ways we do that work.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many American museums require 37.5 or 38 hours of\nwork a week, most of us put in way more. In some old jobs I’ve had,\nparticularly when I was full-time at part-time, juggling multiple roles, I\nregularly put in 100 hours a week. I came from a family that did that, so it\nseemed normal, though my relatives were all earning considerably more for their\n100 hours a week.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m setting wages aside this month. Trust me, I know they\nare important. Salary is, often, the way organizations signal your worth. This\nis particularly evident when organizations pay greater salaries to certain\ndepartments overall than others. And, as Phillip Thompson said inour panel last\nweek, the museum business model sets up problems for our field, because we are\nalways trapped by the amount of money we can raise. Therefore, the whole issue\nof wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of\nwomen\u2019s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions. In other\nwords, wage is enormous conversation and deserves its own month down the road.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month though, I want to deal with something a bit\nmore manageable. How we do our work and how we can improve it. The big\nquestions are, how can people make changes to improve the working conditions,\nand how can leaders help organizations run better?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the full posting go to https:\/\/museumtwo.blogspot.com\/2019\/11\/museum-work.html<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corporate\nSocial Responsibility & the Arts<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Lynn E. Stern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt from Executive Summary <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corporate\nSocial Responsibility & the Arts presents findings from a research project\ninitiated and led by Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts.\nBuilding on Animating Democracy\u2019s 2010 Trend or Tipping Point: Arts &\nSocial Change Grantmaking, this report offers a first snapshot of how\ncorporations and corporate foundations engage arts and culture to achieve their\nCSR\/CCI goals. The report is based on research about recent U.S. corporate\ngiving patterns and trends, as well as telephone interviews with corporate\nleaders, CSR\/CCI officers, and corporate foundation executives whose companies\nsupport arts and culture as a strategy to achieve their CSR\/CCI goals. It\nrepresents one facet of an updated look at private sector support of arts,\ncommunity, civic, and social change in the United States that Animating\nDemocracy will release in 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nreport identifies three main CSR\/CCI drivers that are shifting the focus on the\nkinds of arts and cultural projects, programs, and organizations that\ncorporations are interested in and supporting. These drivers are: 1) to enhance\ncorporate investments in community and economic development, education, and\nhealth and other priority issue areas; 2) to promote and reinforce company\nmission, core values, and brand; and 3) to achieve internal CSR\/CCI goals, such\nas employee engagement\/volunteerism and workforce diversity. Achieving CSR goals\nthrough art is a path of experimentation for some corporations, while others\nare supporting programs and organizations with sustained investment for the\ngreatest potential community or social impact. Following are some key themes\nand observations about how corporations are supporting arts and culture in\nrelation to CSR\/CCI drivers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more\ninformation about CSR and the full report, please click on the links below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/animatingdemocracy.org\/sites\/default\/files\/CSR_Report_FINAL.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/animatingdemocracy.org\/corporate-social-responsibility-arts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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