The Culture of Management and the Management of Culture

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The Culture of Management and the Management of
Culture

• Cultures of Management, Cultures of Creativity
• Dr Chris Bilton

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• Organisational Cultures
• Culture of Management
• Creative Culture?

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Under Pressure
NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
NEO-LIBERALISM
Accountability and measurement mapping
quantitative outcomes
Deregulation empowerment enterprise growth
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New theories of management
Management of Culture, Culture of Management
New forms of management in the creative sector
Theories of creativity and innovation in
management
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Cultural Entrepreneurship
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Creative cultures

• Structural and cultural barriers to growth
• Hardening of roles as the business expands
• Recognise the invisible cultural context
• Bottom-up approaches to strategy
• Irrelevant / wasteful / non-productive activity
  can have productive outcomes

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What can cultural policy do for cultural
management?

• Planning not plans
• Multi-tasking, not specialisation
• Irrationality of incentives for producers and
  consumers
• Sustainability, not growth

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Challenging the discourse of cultural management
THEORIES OF CREATIVITY
POSTMODERN THEORIES OF ORGANISATION
Discourse analysis and organisational storytelling
Mentoring and networking
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• Legitimising the self-perception of the cultural
  entrepreneur

• Less management teaching, more management learning