Attracting and Retaining Arts and Culture Professionals
This season ABA is launching The Compelling Employer, a groundbreaking research initiative examining the employment preferences of arts and culture employees across genres and geographies. This work will build on ABA’s 2022 work on The Compelling Offer. The pandemic may be behind us, but staff acquisition and retention remain core industry-wide concerns. ABA is revisiting this initiative to understand how staff preferences have changed and what organizations can do to attract and retain high performers.
Our Compelling Employer survey uses conjoint analysis (also known as trade-off analysis) to give arts and culture leaders a much clearer picture of what employees want in a job, and what they are willing to trade off to get it. This newly updated survey will seek to understand what staff value in their managers, pay structures, culture and office environments. In addition, we will profile best practices in improving manager quality, shifting to pay for performance, and cultivating culture change from both inside and outside the arts and culture industry.
The Compelling Employer study will answer these key questions:
Which job attributes are most important to my staff?
Which investments in employment attributes yield the greatest reward?
How do preferences differ among demographics and populations within my staff?
What can we do as an organization to attract and retain the best talent?
How can we equip managers for success?
For more information, including the research methodology, see the FAQ section.
For any further questions, please contact survey@advisoryboardarts.com