ABSTRACT
In the Theatre Project, the bully was a manager with experience of working in a charity, but in a non-arts sector. In The Creative Industry, the consultant who harangued her colleagues knew nothing of their areas of expertise and in The Arts Service; the incoming manager was from a separate local authority department and had no previous experience of arts philosophy or ethos. The growth and spread of workplace bullying mirrors the growth and spread of managerialism is mapped in Managing Britannia by Protherough and Pick. The arts employee eloquently expresses the concept that the arts are 'different', as voiced by other theatre professionals. The Artistic Director outlines some of effects of managerialism in an arts context, noting the changes that have been introduced so that the arts establishment's requirement is now that managers produce 'scientific' appraisals in which everything possible has been tallied, measured and calculated, and in which milestones have been surpassed, targets exceeded and goals unfailingly achieved.
