Health & Wellness in the work place

Health and Wellness
Try contacting this person, she is phenomenal and has extensive resource and data to share with you that will help you get started in the right direction. She was one of the people conducting research in Canadian workplaces and has survey results etc for that very interesting study.
Linda Duxbury, Vice-President (‘Day job’: Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario)

Linda Duxbury is a Professor at the School of Business, Carleton University. She received a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo. She is the principal investigator of a three University research team that has recently completed a major study on Balancing Work and Family. Dr. Duxbury is also currently conducting research which evaluates the organizational and individual impacts of E-mail, portable office, cellular telephones, telework, compressed work week, flextime, shiftwork, regular part-time work and on-site day care programs, and studying what makes a “supportive” manager. She is also currently examining the issues of human resource management and work-family conflict in the small business sector.

Dr. Duxbury has published widely in both the academic and practitioner literatures in the area of work-family conflict, supportive work environments, stress, telework, and supportive management. She has also given over 100 plenary talks on these issues to both public and private sector audiences.

Dr. Duxbury held the Imperial Life Chair in Women and Management from 1992 to 1996 and is current Director of the Carleton Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work. She sits on Carleton University Board of Governors, and is an elected member of both the senate and senate executive of Carleton University. She can be reached at (613) 520-2385 or by e-mail

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User deleted says:

November 20, 2006 at 1:49 pm

Happy to help
Hi Russell

This is my area of specialisation and I’d be happy to help if you let me know what specific issues you are researching and what your interest is.

Contact me on [email protected] and we can go from there.

Best wishes

Annie
Breathing Space for Business
TrainingZone says:

November 26, 2006 at 4:28 pm

Health and Wellness
Try contacting this person, she is phenomenal and has extensive resource and data to share with you that will help you get started in the right direction. She was one of the people conducting research in Canadian workplaces and has survey results etc for that very interesting study.
Linda Duxbury, Vice-President (‘Day job’: Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario)

Linda Duxbury is a Professor at the School of Business, Carleton University. She received a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo. She is the principal investigator of a three University research team that has recently completed a major study on Balancing Work and Family. Dr. Duxbury is also currently conducting research which evaluates the organizational and individual impacts of E-mail, portable office, cellular telephones, telework, compressed work week, flextime, shiftwork, regular part-time work and on-site day care programs, and studying what makes a “supportive” manager. She is also currently examining the issues of human resource management and work-family conflict in the small business sector.

Dr. Duxbury has published widely in both the academic and practitioner literatures in the area of work-family conflict, supportive work environments, stress, telework, and supportive management. She has also given over 100 plenary talks on these issues to both public and private sector audiences.

Dr. Duxbury held the Imperial Life Chair in Women and Management from 1992 to 1996 and is current Director of the Carleton Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work. She sits on Carleton University Board of Governors, and is an elected member of both the senate and senate executive of Carleton University. She can be reached at (613) 520-2385 or by e-mail