Creating Healthy Organizations, Revised and Expanded Edition
by Graham Lowe
The thoroughly revised and expanded 2nd edition of my book, Creating Healthy Organizations, has been published by University of Toronto Press (April 2020).
How can you future-proof your organization by making it humanly sustainable? Creating Healthy Organizations answers this question, showing how to forge stronger links between employee well-being and the future success of any organization. The book makes a compelling case for resilient and humanly sustainable businesses by focusing on improving employees’ well-being.
Employee stress, burnout, work-life conflict, and disengagement remain significant workplace problems. Yet, there are important signs of progress. The healthy organization concept has begun moving into the mainstream of corporate wellness. Scholarly research has advanced beyond making a business case for workplace health promotion to showing how successful interventions are based on a culture of health and closer ties with occupational health and safety. More companies are addressing mental health issues, striving to make workplaces psychologically healthy and safe. Expanded environmental sustainability frameworks provide an opening for the more sustainable use of human resources. As well, extensive tools are now available in many countries to guide actions aimed at developing healthy, safe, and thriving workplaces.
These recent workplace trends and resources highlight the need for an updated, concise, integrated, and practical analysis of the challenges of creating a healthier organization, the hurdles that must be overcome along the way, and the key success factors that can guide the improvement process. Creating Healthy Organizations, Revised and Expanded Edition fills this gap in knowledge and practice, guiding those committed to making their organizations healthier.
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Creating Healthy Organizations
by Graham S. Lowe
Creating Healthy Organizations describes how to strengthen the links between people and performance. Author Graham Lowe provides a new perspective on the drivers of organizational performance by integrating insights from workplace health promotion, human resources, organizational change and leadership, employee engagement, and corporate social responsibility. The book’s practical tools will help managers and employees create vibrant workplaces as a basis for sustainable success.
Redesigning Work A Blueprint For The Future Of Work
by Graham Lowe & Frank Graves
Canada’s future prosperity and quality of life depends on designing better jobs and workplaces. Redesigning Work provides a blueprint for the future of work, based on extensive surveys of Canadians that identify practical ways to make work more motivating, rewarding and productive.
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Work, Industry, and Canadian Society, 8th Edition (2021)
By Harvey J. Krahn, Karen Hughes and Graham S. Lowe.
Published by Nelson Education
Work, Industry, and Canadian Society provides a sociological introduction to the history, nature,
organization, and management of work in Canada. The eighth edition expands and adds new coverage
on the biggest work challenges faced now and in the future, such as Canada’s aging and increasingly
diverse workforce, the work experiences of Canada’s Indigenous peoples, the rise of the app-based “gig”
economy, and how technology will continue to impact future jobs and work organization. The new
edition continues to incorporate recent empirical findings, review new and ongoing theoretical and
policy debates, and provide a more international perspective. As the world of work continues to change
rapidly, all trends and statistics have been updated. These authors are well regarded for their teaching
and research, and their years of experience are evident in this comprehensive volume on the past,
present, and future of work in Canada.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Historical Perspectives on Work
Chapter 2: Contemporary Debates and Issues
Chapter 3: Canadian Employment Trends
Chapter 4: Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs
Chapter 5: Labour Markets: Opportunities and Inequality
Chapter 6: Gender and Paid Employment
Chapter 7: Household, Family, and Caring Work
Chapter 8: Organizing and Managing Work
Chapter 9: In Search of New Managerial Paradigms
Chapter 10: Conflict and Control in the Workplace
Chapter 11: Unions and Industrial Relations
Chapter 12: Alternative Approaches to Organizing Work
Chapter 13: Work Values and Work Orientations
Chapter 14: Job Satisfaction, Alienation, and Work-Related Stress
The Quality of Work: A People Centred Agenda
by Graham S. Lowe
In The Quality of Work: A People-Centred Agenda, Graham Lowe, argues that debates about the future of work have focused too narrowly on the quantity of jobs available. As important as job creation is, he says, we also need to think seriously about the quality of the work we create. Lowe proposes that an agenda centred on work quality is essential if we want to ensure Canada’s continued viability, both economically and socially. Taking a fact-based look at employment trends and workplace changes, and what we can do about them, Lowe suggests that high-quality work offers a common ground for employers with an eye on productivity and individuals seeking greater challenge and meaning in their work.
“staunchly argued and well researched.” Globe & Mail, Report on Business
Read Review from the Canadian Journal of Sociology Online.
The Quality of Work: A People-Centred Agenda is available at finer bookstores or can be ordered directly through Amazon.