Author: Adizes, Ichak

Publication Year: 1971

Media Type: Report

Summary:

Dated March 1972. A short version of this paper was published by the California Management Review (Winter, 1972), under the title, Administering or the arts: introduction and overview. [Bibliography in footnotes]. The ambiguities of this significant field led to a study and travel grant during the years of 1969-71 which enabled me to study in depth thirty-three artistic organizations in dance, theatre, opera, symphony orchestras, and music centers in the , Yugoslavia and Israel. In this article I concentrate only on the organizations in the in order to keep the article within publishable length. All of these organizations were not-for-profit; I have not studied any profit-oriented or commercial entertainment artistic institutions. The explorative interviews with one hundred and fifty-six members of the organizations (artistic directors, business managers, general managers, board members and others) plus my own observations in serving as a management consultant for over a year for several artistic organizations, are the raw materials from which I draw the following observations and analyses.

Abstract:

Dated March 1972. A short version of this paper was published by the California Management Review (Winter, 1972), under the title, Administering or the arts: introduction and overview. [Bibliography in footnotes]. The ambiguities of this significant field led to a study and travel grant during the years of 1969-71 which enabled me to study in depth thirty-three artistic organizations in dance, theatre, opera, symphony orchestras, and music centers in the , Yugoslavia and Israel. In this article I concentrate only on the organizations in the in order to keep the article within publishable length. All of these organizations were not-for-profit; I have not studied any profit-oriented or commercial entertainment artistic institutions. The explorative interviews with one hundred and fifty-six members of the organizations (artistic directors, business managers, general managers, board members and others) plus my own observations in serving as a management consultant for over a year for several artistic organizations, are the raw materials from which I draw the following observations and analyses.

The organizational patterns described below borrow most of their facets from several organizations, in order to present a complete, rather than fragmented picture. (However, it is not an attempt to present a profile of an average artistic organization). Thus the reader might not find an organization that has all the problems described. The purpose of the following presentation is to point to the most frequent managerial problems that must be resolved if the arts are to benefit from the opportunities that the post-industrial social developments offer. (p. 1-2)

CONTENTS: ﾝ1. The role of the Boards of Directors. 2. The status and role of arts administrators. 3. Patterns of management. a). Management by crisis. b). Lack of communication and routine. c). Budgeting practice. d). Excessive specialization and expensive separation. e). Constraints on learning. f). Myopic marketing. g). Lack of administrative training and research. h) Lack of a sense of mission and goals.

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Categories: Governance