Author: Graham Lowe

Luncheon keynote at the Workers Compensation Conference: Law & Practice. Sponsored by Lancaster House and University of Toronto Centre for Industrial Relations. Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Keynote talk at The Changing Face of Work and Learning conference, Telus Centre, Edmonton. Sponsored by The Work and Learning Network, University of Alberta. For conference details see: www.wln.ualberta.ca
TALK OUTLINE: Marshall McLuhan once predicted that we would all be “learning a living” in the information age. This age has arrived, but learning in workplaces is easier said than done. The rhetoric is clear: economic policy links national competitiveness to skill development and learning, social policy promotes life-long learning, and employers are striving for knowledge-intensive business strategies. However, implementing these ideas is difficult because many work environments do not enable learning. The solution requires more than new human resource management practices or a stronger commitment to build a ‘learning organization’. A useful guide for supporting learning in workplaces is the model of a healthy organization – one that has healthy, sustainable and innovation outcomes for employees, investors (or citizens in the public sector) and communities. From this perspective, personal and organizational well-being depends on active learning.

Keynote presentation at the 52nd annual Western Cities Conference. Edmonton.
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Keynote presentation at the Ontario Hospital Association’s Healthy Hospital Innovative Practices Symposium. Toronto.

People Power in Partnerships Workshop session, York Region Human Services Employment Project, Markham, Ontario. September 15, 2003.

Keynote presentation at the Roundtable Project on Safe and Timely Return to Function/Return to Work. September 8, 2003. Toronto.
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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 supports a comprehensive model of workplace health that targets working conditions, work relationships and workplace organization for health promotion interventions.
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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.
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Panel presentation at the 19th Annual Labour Arbitration and Policy Conference, Calgary, Alberta. June 12, 2003.

Presentation to the ‘Facts for Future — Finland 2015’, Finnish delegation study visit to Canada. Montreal.