Category Archives: Arts

If school bullying came to the workplace… literally

Posted on November 13, 2013 by jacksonquigg

This is an interesting way to explore school bullying – it transposes the childish and adolescent behaviour to an office workplace. For those who don’t speak French, the final caption reads: “A day at work doesn’t resemble this. And a … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Workplace Bullying | Tagged creative, film, mad world, Michael Andrews, school bullying, video, Workplace bullying, you tube | Leave a comment

Creating Without Conflict

Posted on June 26, 2013 by jacksonquigg

Alongside the stimulating discussion at BECTU Freelancers’ Fair earlier this month, Britain’s Got Bullies, a survey has been launched across five unions – BECTU, the NUJ, the Writers’ Guild, Musicians Union and Equity – to investigate how widespread bullying is … Continue reading →

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Breaking the silence about Bullying in the Arts

Posted on May 8, 2013 by jacksonquigg

An invitation from Improbable, Anne-Marie Quigg, Ellan Parry and Frances Rifkin The first study of workplace bullying in the arts revealed that in UK theatres and arts centres two in every five employees had been targeted by a bully. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Creativity, Culutral organizations, Research, Workplace Bullying | Tagged actors, artists, Arts bullying, Arts workers, cultural sector, freelancers, performers, Research, theatre, Workplace bullying | Leave a comment

Myths about creativity and the arts: five and six

Posted on May 2, 2013 by jacksonquigg

Check the previous post for myths four and five, and the one before that for the background to Teresa Amabile’s six myths of creativity and an introduction to the first two. Myth 5. Competition Beats Collaboration In finance and high-tech industries … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Creativity, Culutral organizations, Research, Trades unions, Workplace Bullying | Tagged BBC, Clare in the Community, collaboration, creativity, cultural sector, fear, innovative drama, Leadership, Research, restructuring, sexual harassment, Training, unions | Leave a comment

Myths about creativity and the arts: three and four

Posted on April 15, 2013 by jacksonquigg

Check the previous post for the background to Teresa Amabile’s six myths about creativity and an introduction to the first two. Here are myths three and four. Myth 3. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity Amabile records that business people often thought … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Creativity, Research, Time management, Workplace Bullying | Tagged Coercion, creativity, cultural sector, deadlines, fear, happiness, incubation, innovation, stress, Theory X, Theory Y | 1 Comment

Myths about creativity and the arts

Posted on April 8, 2013 by jacksonquigg

During my research into bullying in cultural organizations, which became the basis for the book Bullying in the Arts, I noted that quite a lot of arts managers claimed the experience of working in arts environments with creative people was … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Community, community arts, Creativity, Culutral organizations, Research, Workplace Bullying | Tagged artists, Arts bullying, business innovation, community arts, creativity, cultural sector, Culture, function of the human brain, Harvard, neuroscience, Workplace bullying | 2 Comments

Meddlesome management – the art gallery

Posted on January 2, 2013 by jacksonquigg

This true story is one of eight case studies in Bullying in the Arts, published June 2011, the first chapter of which is FREE from the Gower website. In a small town, a privately-funded commercial gallery was opened to provide … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Real life stories, Research, Workplace Bullying | Tagged art gallery, arts, bullying, cultural sector, management responsibility, Research | Leave a comment

A silent threat of violence

Posted on December 12, 2012 by jacksonquigg

Let’s suppose a child has a favourite toy, a doll or an action figure perhaps. Then imagine that another child grabs it unnoticed, puts a noose around it’s neck and strings it up so all the kids can have a … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Real life stories, Research, Workplace Bullying | Tagged arts, cultural sector, management responsibility, museums, threatening behaviour, Workplace bullying | Leave a comment

An actor’s tale: the playground on stage

Posted on November 7, 2012 by jacksonquigg

A very interesting email arrived in my inbox two weeks ago from English actor Dean Harris. This is an account of his experience in his own words. “It happened to me in the early ’70s in Canada. I was in … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Real life stories, Research, Workplace Bullying | Tagged abuse, actors, artists, Arts bullying, cultural sector, performing arts, Research, Workplace bullying | Leave a comment

Whistleblowing and the arts

Posted on October 18, 2012 by jacksonquigg

The headline in the Arts Professional blog post (issue #257) reads: The subsidised arts sector lives in fear of the hands that feed it, says Liz Hill. If you haven’t read it yet, I suggest you do. The post describes … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts, Research, Workplace Bullying, Writing and editing | Tagged Ai Weiwei, artists, Artists Taking The Lead, arts, Arts Council England, Belarus Free Theatre, bullying, Creative Scotland, equality act, fear, performing arts, Pussy Riot, Scotland, whistleblowing, Yorkshire | Leave a comment