Building a stronger workforce
Over the past 15 years, most museums have embraced diversity and equality, and actively tried to give everyone who wants it the opportunity to make a contribution to their work.
Now that museums are facing difficult times, the temptation may be to retreat to conventional ways of doing things. But embedding greater diversity in your working practices could help your museum survive and even prosper through the difficult times ahead.
This Museum Practice draws together edited extracts from the Museums Association's Culture Change, Dynamism and Diversity report, which sets out the ways in which museums can continue to reinvigorate and diversify the workforce, even when faced with shrinking resources.
The following articles and case studies cover approaches to workforce diversity, inclusive-working practices and unlocking the potential of volunteers, apprentices and front-of-house staff. You can also help document the different approaches by sharing your experiences and views in the Have Your Say section.
Now that museums are facing difficult times, the temptation may be to retreat to conventional ways of doing things. But embedding greater diversity in your working practices could help your museum survive and even prosper through the difficult times ahead.
This Museum Practice draws together edited extracts from the Museums Association's Culture Change, Dynamism and Diversity report, which sets out the ways in which museums can continue to reinvigorate and diversify the workforce, even when faced with shrinking resources.
The following articles and case studies cover approaches to workforce diversity, inclusive-working practices and unlocking the potential of volunteers, apprentices and front-of-house staff. You can also help document the different approaches by sharing your experiences and views in the Have Your Say section.
