Opening keynote talk at the 11th Annual Occupational Hazards to Health Care Workers conference, Vancouver, May 18-20.
Tag: Healthy Organizations
Healthy Workplace Strategies
Healthy Workplace Strategies: Creating Change and Achieving Results.
Healthy jobs and workplaces benefit workers and employers, customers and shareholders, citizens and society. This report focuses on the organizational change processes, strategies and tactics that can bring about healthier and more productive working conditions. The report offers an action model for achieving healthy organizations. The model highlights the importance of establishing enabling conditions in order to make the organization change-ready, then designing a process that engages all stakeholders in actively shaping a healthy workplace. The report offers practical ideas, examples and tools to help generate healthy workplace actions.
This report is available in both English and French.
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Creating healthy workplaces for all health care workers
Keynote presentation at the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, Labour Relations Conference, Edmonton.
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Creating healthy organizations
Closing keynote talk at THE BOTTOM LINE CONFERENCE: UNTREATED DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY DISORDERS IN THE WORKPLACE. Vancouver. Sponsored by the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Conference website: www.cmha-bc.org/bottomline/program
We know that healthy workplaces contribute to employees’ overall well-being and job performance. Why is it so difficult to put this knowledge into practice? Dr. Lowe’s plenary talk addresses this question, showing how implementing successful change requires a shift in our thinking from health as an employee outcome to a characteristic of the entire organization – a core value that guides how a business operates. He offers practical advice on change strategies, a topic that has been overlooked in research on workplace health promotion. Creating a healthy organization requires a commitment to individual and organizational outcomes, a reduction of work environment risk factors, and supports and incentives for action.
Trust can ease the stress
This article argues that healthy workplaces start with healthy work relationships. It also provides guiding principles for creating healthy workplaces.
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Mental health and healthy leadership: A challenge to corporate culture and corporate health
Keynote presentation at the annual meeting of the European Network of “Entreprise for Health”, Mondragon, Spain.
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Creating healthy work environments to reduce health and safety risks
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.
How healthy organizations support learning and innovation
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.
Rethinking Work: Understanding the New Workforce and Workplace
Keynote presentation at the Ontario Hospital Association’s Healthy Hospital Innovative Practices Symposium. Toronto.
Correlates of employees’ perceptions of a healthy work environment
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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