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  • How Do You Design a Fair and Effective Compensation Program?

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    By Katherine McNamee
    At AAM, we were fortunate to have leadership’s support from the very beginning, and although the analysis did require a significant time commitment, it has been a worthwhile investment. Discussing compensation practices enabled deep …

  • Get about It: Change and Resistance

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    By Linda Norris
    I’d never visited New Orleans before, and my brief but fascinating experience served as a metaphor for this year’s AAM Annual Meeting experience. New Orleans is a city of layers, with old finishes poking through, new ideas still pushing …

  • Museums as a Pink Collar Profession

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    By Joan Baldwin
    This week, my colleagues at GEMM (the Gender Equity in Museums Movement) published their second white paper, Museums as a Pink Collar Profession. GEMM’s paper poses some complex questions about our field. Among other things, it asks …

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