Journal of Management Development: Volume 8 Issue 6

Is There Still a Chairman of the Board?

Pat Armstrong

The position of women in the 1970s, when a Royal Commissioninvestigated women′s status, is compared with that of women in the1980s. The two major factors considered when…

Can Organisations Respond to the Role Overload in Dual‐Earner Families?

Loren Falkenberg, Mary Monachello

The interaction of work and household responsibilities indual‐career families is described. If married, the woman manager almostalways faces the traditional demands placed on…

Should Women Managers Have to Act like Men?

Karen Korabik, Roya Ayman

Although getting along with people is just as important to being agood manager as being able to get the job done, according to the currentstereotype the ideal manager is…

Mentor Relationships in Organisations: Issues, Strategies and Prospects for Women

Carol A. McKeen, Ronald J. Burke

An overview is provided of the mentoring process and why it can becrucial to the success of women managers. Also explored are some of thereasons why it is more difficult for women…

Change from Within: The Case of Canadian National

Alexander Mikalachki, Dorothy Mikalachki

Given the right combination of people and pressures, change canhappen, and quickly too. How a company, faced with a legal order toimplement an affirmative action programme…

Meeting the Needs of Women Managers: The UNB Training Programme

Patricia A. Fitzgerald

A brief overview is offered of a new executive developmentprogramme for women, sponsored by the Canadian Federal Government anddeveloped and operated at the University of New…

Who Needs Training: Women or Organisations?

Martha Reavley

The need for special training programmes for women in management isdiscussed. Traditionally, the assumption has been that, in order forwomen to succeed in the firm, they require…

Women in a Man′s World

Anne Forrest

As a departure from the more traditional managerial literature, awomen‐centred perspective of social relations at work is adopted. Theconventional view is that we are “different”…