MMM790 Arts Management Trimester 1, 2017
Assignment Two: A Case Study on Leadership in the Arts
Weighting: 50%
Length: 4,500-5,000 (not including appendices and references)
Due Date: Monday 5 June, 2017
Format: Report in Word or PDF
Referencing: Harvard style
Submission: Upload your electronic copy using the Assignment 2 Dropbox
Task:
Consider the following from Hewison et al (2010).
‘Effective leadership is the ability to marry rhetorical power with practical innovations so as to create a sustainable, resilient, well-networked organisation capable of growing its own capacity to act, and providing high-quality results for its customers, staff and funders’.
You are encouraged to discuss your thoughts on the relevance, accuracy and appropriateness of Hewison et al’s (2010) notion of effective leadership and the ways in which it aligns and does not align with your chosen case study.
Requirements:
• Select an arts or cultural organisation upon which to base your case study.
• Collect data from secondary sources (journals, newspaper articles, and websites). You may also base your discussion on interviews with key management and/or members of the board. All sources, including any interviews, must be cited using the Harvard referencing style.
You must set out your case study as outlined below:
1. Contextual Overview
a. Discuss the notion and definition of leadership from a range of authors.
b. Analyse the importance of leadership in the cultural sector.
2. Case Study Analysis
a. Develop an analysis of how the organisation you have selected provides leadership both internally (within the organisation) and externally (within the sector).
b. Analyse the differences between the leadership provided by: Chair of the Board, CEO or Artistic Director, and the General Manager.
c. Assess the effectiveness of the key roles in relation to each other and in the provision of leadership for the organisation.
3. Conclusion/Recommendations
• Based on your analysis, what recommendations do you make for the future leadership role of the organisation you have studied?
References you may find useful:
Bilton, C. 2007, Management & Creativity: From Creative Industries to Creative Management, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Caust, J. (ed) 2012, Arts Leadership: International Case Studies, Tilde University Press: Melbourne.
Cray, D., Inglis, L. & Freeman, S. ‘Managing the Arts: Leadership and Decision Making under Dual Rationalities’ Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society. Winter 2007, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p295-313.
Enoch, W. 2014 Take me to your leader: the dilemma of cultural leadership, Currency House Strawberry Hills, NSW
Foley, S. 2005, ‘Managing a creative practice: an international study of women in arts management’, in Lengel, L. (ed), Intercultural Communication & Creative Practice, Westport: Praeger.
Hewison, R, Holden, J & Jones, S 2010, All Together: A Creative Approach to organisational Change, Demos: London.
Hewison, R. and Holden, J 2011, The Cultural Leadership Handbook: How to run a creative organisation, Gower: Surrey.
Ibbotson, P. 2008 The illusion of leadership: directing creativity in business and the arts Palgrave Macmillan
Landry, P. 2011, ‘A Conceptual Framework for Studying Succession in Artistic and Administrative Leadership in the Cultural Sector’. International Journal of Arts Management, Jan, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p44-58
Radbourne, J. 2003, ‘Regional Development through the Enterprise of Arts Leadership’, Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, Fall, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p211-227.
Rentschler, R. 2015 Arts Governance: people, passion, performance, Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon
Schlesinger, P 2010 ‘The most creative organization in the world’? The BBC, ‘creativity’ and managerial style’ International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 16, Issue 3, August, pp.271-285
Sutherland, I. & Gosling, J. 2010 ‘Cultural Leadership: Mobilizing Culture from Affordances to Dwelling’, Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, Jan-Mar, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p6-2
