Transforming Museum Workplace Cultures
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Description
Museums are respected for their unique ability to preserve cultural heritage, educate the public, inspire creativity, and build community. Yet many museums rely on outmoded and inequitable systems, including untenable compensation models, poor work-life balance, and scant opportunities for advancement. The 2020 COVID pandemic proved a reckoning for the museum field, with reduced pay, abruptly dismissed staff, and diminished transparency elucidating longstanding toxic elements of museum workplaces, leading to public outcry and high turnover rates. Yet here is a new generation emerging that expects more from our museums as workplaces in the twenty-first century.
This book addresses the realities of museum culture and spotlights new approaches to team management and the museum work environment, with features including:
· * Attention to topics such as compensation, communications, reduced/hybrid schedules, and operationalization of shared agency, transparency, and professional advancement;
· * Contributions from museum professionals, labor advocates, and thought leaders;
· * Case studies to illuminate new approaches to team management and employee participation;
· * Recommendations and resources to support productive actions, advocacy, and shared agency in the workplace;
· * Discussion guides to structure conversations regarding workplace satisfaction, equity, and representation.
Transforming Museum Workplace Cultures challenges museums and their leaders to adopt innovations that enhance institutional health and financial sustainability while also prioritizing staff satisfaction, fulfillment, and validation in the workplace.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I: Time
1. Perry Ralenkotter, “Advancing Equity and Work Life Balance Through Work and Time Innovation”
2. Ginia Shubik Sweeney, “Hybrid Work at Museums: A Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century”
3. Tony Pierucci, “Time to Address Burnout: Defined Remote Work and Other Types of Leave in Museums”
4. Yohanna Tesfai and Olivia Feal, “Out of Sync: Time, Structure, and Collaboration in Museum Work”
PART II: Money
5. William Peterson, “Museum Education and Wage Structure Considerations: Money, Education, and Career”
6. Kim Ondreck Carim, “Power, Equity, and Social Cohesion in Museum Budgeting Practices”
7. Jenn DePrizio, “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Making Professional Development a Strategic Investment”
8. Melissa Prycer, “Answering Questions Before They're Asked: Strategic Financial Reports”
PART III: Advancement & Opportunity
9. Caroline Klibanoff, “They Don't Know What You Know: Closing the Gap Between Leadership and Staff”
10. Rebecca Schulman, “Countering Burnout Through Shared Purpose”
11. Amanda Tobin Ripley, “A Foot in the Door? Enabling Transparent and Accessible Career Advancement in the Museum via Union Contracts”
12. Ann Fortescue, “Opportunity: Building Agency”
PART IV: Mission & Values
13. Adam Rozan and Amy Nitza, “Trauma at the Museum: Advancing Trauma-Based Knowledge Work to Promote Wellbeing in the Museum Community”
14. Richard M. Josey Jr., “It's Not About Fixing the System; It's About Changing the Story”
15. Julie Siglin, “Lessons from the Artist: Reimagining Institutional Culture at the Wharton Esherick Museum”
16. Max A. van Balgooy, “The Three-Legged Stool of Museum Culture: Building Stability with Mission, Vision, and Values”
Conclusion
Discussion Guide
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | Apr 01 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798765153147 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | American Alliance of Museums |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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