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21st Century Job Quality: Achieving What Canadians Want (Sep. 3 '07): by Graham Lowe
This new study, published by Canadian Policy Research Networks, is urging employers and governments to focus on job quality as a means to recruit and retain the workers needed for Canada's future prosperity. In 21st Century Job Quality: Achieving…
A Framework for Public Reporting on Healthy Work Environments in Ontario Healthcare Settings (Mar. 26 '10): by Graham Lowe
The purpose of this report is to inform the development of a comprehensive framework for assessing and publicly reporting the quality of work environments in Ontario’s healthcare organizations. The report synthesizes relevant research on healthy…
A proper welcome (Jul. 17 '06): by Graham Lowe
This article provides advice on how managers can welcome new employees, so they become connected to the organization's values and culture.
Acquisition of employability skills by high school students (Mar. 1 '02): by Harvey Krahn, Graham S. Lowe, and Wolfgang Lehmann
Much of the debate about enhancing the employability skills of Canadian youth is premised on untested assumptions. This paper examines Alberta high school students' self-reports of the employability skills they have acquired in high school courses,…
Are you ready to tap older workers' talents? (Feb. 27 '06): by Graham S. Lowe
This is the second of a two-part series on older employees that was published in the Canadian HR Reporter on February 27, 2006.
Building healthy organizations takes more than wellness programs (Sep. 8 '03): by Graham S. Lowe
This article lays out the ingredients of a healthy organization, how this is a step beyond 'workplace healthy promotion', and the change strategies required to get there.
Control Over Time and Work–Life Balance: (Jun. 21 '07): by Graham Lowe
This report was prepared for the Federal Labour Standards Review Committee. It examines the research and relevant Canadian empirical evidence on work schedules, work time and work–life balance. It assesses trends and current practices in…
Coordinated Action Agenda for Healthy Workplaces and Supporting Evidence (Nov. 16 '07): by Canadian Healthy Workplace Council
The Canadian Healthy Workplace Council is calling for a coordinated action agenda to create healthy workplaces. Recognizing that a critical mass of governments, organizations and workplace health practitioners are pursuing healthy workplace…
Correlates of employees' perceptions of a healthy work environment (Sep. 9 '03): by Graham S. Lowe, Grant Schellenberg, and Harry S. Shannon
This study analyzed correlates of workers' perceptions of the extent to which their work environment is healthy, and how these perceptions influence job satisfaction, employee commitment, workplace morale, absenteeism and intent to quit. The study…
Creating a Quality Work Environment: Survey Results (Sep. 9 '06): by Graham Lowe
Creating a Quality Work Environment RESULTS FROM THE HSAA 2006 WORK ENVIRONMENT SURVEY The Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) conducted a Work Environment Survey to provide new evidence that can be used constructively to improve the…
Creating Healthy Health Care Workplaces in British Columbia: Evidence for Action (Nov. 24 '06): by Graham Lowe
Creating Healthy Health Care Workplaces in British Columbia: Evidence for Action. A DISCUSSION PAPER Prepared for the Provincial Health Services Authority. KEY MESSAGES There is a business case for investing in healthier work…
Creating Healthy Organizations (Jan. 17 '08): by Graham Lowe
Keynote presentation by Graham Lowe at Apples to Zen: Empowering Employee Wellness, Best Practices Forum. Calgary, October 24, 2007. Sponsored by Calgary Economic Development.
Creating healthy workplaces for all health care workers (Nov. 7 '03): by Graham S. Lowe
Keynote presentation at the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, Labour Relations Conference, Edmonton.
Custom-Fit Healthy Workplace Strategies (Oct. 29 '04): by Graham S. Lowe
90-minute session at the Health, Work and Wellness Conference, October 29, 2004, Vancouver. For more information visit the conference website: www.healthworkandwellness.com
Employee assistance professionals' role in creating healthy, productive organizations (Jun. 15 '04): by Graham S. Lowe
Underlying workplace conditions have a much greater impact on employees' productivity and health than individual behaviour. Employee assistance professionals can help redefine workplace health as a strategic issue that affects corporate costs and…
Employer of Choice: Workplace Innovation in Government. (Jan. 1 '01): by Graham S. Lowe
Canada’s governments want to become "employers of choice." Many are striving to be more flexible, knowledge-intensive and learning-based. Reaching these goals will require nothing short of a bold new human resource strategy that can…
Forging tighter links between workplace health and productivity: an action plan for Canada (Sep. 9 '03): by Graham S. Lowe
Keynote presentation at the Roundtable Project on Safe and Timely Return to Function/Return to Work. September 8, 2003. Toronto.
Getting a grip on stress (Jun. 10 '08): by Graham Lowe
Work stress often gets labelled a 21st century epidemic. However, increased employer attention on creating healthier work environments may be helping to get stress under control.There’s only one way to know whether the stress landscape is…
Healthy work environments: Canada's Next Big Idea (Jun. 21 '04): by Graham S. Lowe
Nachemson Lecture, Institute for Work & Health, 21 June 2004, Toronto What would it take to make healthy work environments a top national priority? For this to happen, employers, employees, unions and professional associations, and…
Healthy workers = productive workers (May. 13 '08): by Graham Lowe
Graham Lowe co-presented with Linda Duxbury a session at the Canadian Pension & Benefits Institute's annual conference, Forum 2008, Toronto, May 13, 2008. Session description: Learn about evidence-based strategies for improving employee…

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