Produtos por autor | GAUTHIER, Benoît

Mr. Benoît Gauthier has very strong experience in research, in academic, private and public settings. He has specialised in strategic and organisational research and intervention, in market research, in program evaluation, in applied social research and in policy analysis. Over the years, his involvement in more than 200 research and intervention assignments has allowed him to build a particular expertise in the measurement and management of client satisfaction, human resource management, economic development, health and social services, technology, immigration, housing, arts and culture, and management information systems. Concerning research methodologies, Mr. Gauthier has acquired an enviable reputation as an experienced quantitative and qualitative analyst and as a top project manager. After his doctoral studies, Mr. Gauthier has succively held the positions of chief of research in a branch of the department of Justice Canada, senior evaluator at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, evaluation manager then director of program evaluation at Communications Canada and senior vice-president and chief of operations at Ekos Research Associates. In early 1996, he founded Circum Network Inc.. Over the past five years, Mr. Gauthier has been more closely concerned with organisational management issues; this has allowed him to bridge concerns about measurement and management concerns. He has acquired the Certified Management Consultant professional certification. He is a member of the Quebec Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec. He has taught research methodology, program evaluation and the decision-making process at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the École nationale d'administration publique, University of Ottawa and the Université du Québec à Hull. He is still involved in teaching at ÉNAP and Ottawa University. He is the main author and the editor of Recherche sociale : de la problématique à la collecte des données which has gone through five French editions so far (1984, 1992, 1997, 2003, 2008; Presses de l'Université du Québec) and one Portuguese edition (2003; Lusociência).