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Creating Healthy Organizations |
Graham Lowe talks with Canadian HR Reporter TV's Amanda Silliker about why it's important to have a healthy organization and how employers can build one.
Work force singing a new kind of blues
| Author(s): | Graham S. Lowe |
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CEO Refresher |
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Mar. 1 '03 |
The old industrial era was stressful for workers. Factories churning out endless consumer products were built around assembly line jobs, which were physically taxing and mind-numbingly boring. In today's global knowledge economy, robots or workers in developing countries do most of the factory work. The "blue-collar blues," as factory worker dissatisfaction was called in the sixties and seventies, no longer is a major threat to productivity. Originally published in the Globe and Mail, October 2002.
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- Employment relationships
- Future of work
- Healthcare workplaces
- Healthy organizations
- Human capital development
- Information technology
- Labour relations
- Organizational change strategies
- Organizational performance and productivity
- Public policy
- Public service renewal
- Quality of work
- School-work transitions
- Skills and learning
- Strategic human resource management
- Work quality indicators
- Work stress at home
- Workers' expectations and values
- Workforce demographics
- Workplace innovation
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