2003-02-01

This paper is the final report of the first phase of the Creative Management project, which deals with one of the most challenging resource dilemmas facing Canadas not-for-profit arts and heritage sector how we can keep our current experienced managers and administrators in the sector and provide for their professional renewal, and how we can attract, develop and retain a new generation of committed managers to continue the work of our present leaders.

Over the next five to ten years, the huge baby boom generation, whose members occupy many mid- to senior-level jobs in all sectors of the economy, will begin retiring, while the number of workers under age 30 starts to plummet. The next generations of professionals will be the best-educated cohorts in Canadian history, technologically savvy, culturally diverse, and highly marketable - but few in number and burdened by record-high student debt loads.
With their pick of jobs, will they choose to work in Canadas not-for-profit arts and heritage organizations?