Cultural Human Resources Council: 8 books

HR management 101 – Find what you need to know about HR. Most small and medium-size cultural organizations — 5-40 employees — do not need and cannot justify a full-time human resources manager. It is common that no one has extra time to devote to carefully assessing and upgrading the human...

Challenge and conflict are common in cultural organizations, given multiple demands for severely limited resources, underpaid and overworked employees, disagreements over administrative and artistic priorities and the potential strains of board/management relations. We rarely stop to examine...

Like many management terms, the words “performance management” have been interpreted, and the concept implemented, in many different ways. A significant proportion of organizations in the cultural sector don’t manage employee performance in a systematic way for a variety of reasons. ...

A performance coach helps other people improve their proficiency and competence at performing a specific task. Sometimes performance coaching involves passing along knowledge, but that’s only a small part of the activity. As a performance coach, your real goal is to help a person improve the way...

Your special talents — be they artistic or managerial — combined with your passion and commitment to the arts, probably played a significant role in getting your organization where it is today. Look at the contributions of others on your team. Chances are that some or all of them brought significant...

Few managers — cultural or otherwise — savour the idea of “getting good” at dismissing people. Even the most experienced managers feel stress and anxiety when they go through the termination process. Having a clear idea of the process and how to do it effectively won’t make it...

In the general workplace, employee benefits play an increasingly important role in the lives of employees and their families, and can have a significant financial and administrative impact on an organization. However, the majority of small/medium-sized cultural sector organizations do not...

A job description is a written statement of the duties, responsibilities, required qualifications, and reporting relationships of a particular job. It’s based on information obtained through analyzing the job, an understanding of the competencies and skills required to accomplish needed tasks,...