252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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The current economic climate, coupled with an all embracing desire for museums to be respondent to 'the market' make a proper grounding in management essential. The 'bottom line' is one of the most powerful measures of management performance. Museums and galleries invariably have a neutral bottom line, they are not set up to make a profit and many of them are constrained by governmental accounting... Read more
Introduction 1 The history of management and the museum context 2 Managing yourself: the ‘player manager’ 3 Managing other people 4 Choosing your team 5 Developing staff 6 Communication 7 Leadership 8 Strategic planning and the management of resources 9 Managing organisations 10 Organisation structure 11 Structural patterns and the division of work 12 Culture, conflict and change 13 Total Quality Management in museums and galleries 14 Conclusions for museum managers
Biography
Michael A. Fopp is Director of the Royal Air Force Museum, London. He has twenty years of museum experience, of which more than half has been spent directing major museums in the independent and national sector.
