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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 and Sustainable Health Care Organizations (Dec. 10 '10): by Graham Lowe
This article outlines how health care employers can be leaders in creating healthy, humanly sustainable organizations. Doing so will benefit patients, employees and physicians, and society.
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 a Vibrant Workplace (Jan. 15 '11): by Graham Lowe
This article describes 5 principles HR professionals can follow to build the foundations for sustainable success. A sustainable organization succeeds by renewing and replenishing its human and social capital.
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.
Creating Sustainable Organizations: How Flexible Work Improves Wellbeing and Performance (Nov. 29 '10): by Graham Lowe
American Express Company and FlexPaths, LLC have published a report, Creating Sustainable Organizations, that provides innovative insights to creating an integrated approach to workplace health promotion, flexible work arrangements and employee…
Culture audit report (Jan. 18 '12): by Graham Lowe
Graham Lowe Group's culture audit report and recommendations of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre's dialysis unit is made public by PRHC.
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…

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