The Manager Profile in the Cultural Institutions. Case Study - the Students’ Cultural Houses from Romania

Abstract

Through this abstract, we wish to point out the main ideas of the article, which focuses on several relevant directions for what the profile of the cultural institutions manager in the Romanian public domain represents, accentuating a specific type of public institution, meaning, the students' houses of culture. The questionnaire was the method used to obtain the data concerning the manager’s activity and his role within the Romanian public cultural institution. The results of the research and the practical implications, beyond the particularities of each students' houses of culture, are relevant in the reality of the present, offering a radiography of some important cultural edifices of Romania. Inside situations, pleasant and less pleasant aspects, things to change and concrete proposals to accelerate the evolution and development of these cultural centres are reference points for the deciding government authorities that have the right to give the green light for change. This article is also about the role of the managers of public cultural institutions have to play, to revive the Romanian cultural houses. The value of this material represents the starting point for change, with the emphasis on those essential aspects which need to be rethought and to be adapted to the present. The cultural managers will raise awareness to the common institutional problems, and the higher deciding factors will have a basis on which to create a plan involving the necessary measures.

Keywords

• cultural public institutions
• public management
• artistic innovation
• cultural entrepreneurship
• romanian students’ cultural houses
• youngsters non-formal education
• governmental public policies