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Formal and informal management training programs for women in Canada: Who seems to be doing a good job?

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The increasing complexity of Canadian businesses in a changing marketplace indicates that women as well as men managers will have to be well trained to be able to position themselves in this new environment with a certain degree of success and personal happiness. As management educators, we have to accept an important share in this responsibility. This paper examines some of the factors that should be considered by those who want to develop management training programs for the future women managers or entrepreneurs.

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  1. Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, 5255 Avenue Decelles, H3T 1V6, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Dina Lavoie (H.E.C.)

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Dina Lavoie is associate professor of management and organization development at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales at Montreal since 1977. Her main area of interest is entrepreneurship. She has authored the first studies on women entrepreneurs in Canada and has developed some of the first management training programs for women managers in Quebec, New Brunswick and several Asean Countries where she has resided and worked for several years. She is secretary-treasurer general of the new National Entrepreneurship Development Institute of Canada (NEDI) and is advisor to the federal and several provincial governments on issues related to women entrepreneurs and women managers. She is member of the board of trustees of several organisations including NEDI and the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok). We find her listed in “Who's Who of Canadian Women”, “The World Who's Who of Women”, “the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership” etc.

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Lavoie, D. Formal and informal management training programs for women in Canada: Who seems to be doing a good job?. Journal of Business Ethics 9, 377–383 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380337

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