Tag: Healthy Organizations

Creating Sustainable Organizations: How Flexible Work Improves Wellbeing and Performance

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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 engagement. Written by Graham Lowe, the report focuses on the link between overall wellbeing of employees, including mental and physical health, work and personal life integration.
Key findings in the report provide new insights into leveraging employee wellness promotion, addressing underlying root causes of wellness and performance, expanding flexible work design, connecting wellbeing and employee engagement and fostering a healthy work culture.
Flexible work design is a substantial component in the report and underscores the importance of giving employees more choice and control over their jobs and work lives, trusting them to deliver and creating responsibility for results. This is a common theme in employee health promotion, work and personal life integration and employee engagement.
For more information on FlexPaths: www.flexemployer.com
Report PDF

Creating Healthy Organizations

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Keynote presentation by Graham Lowe at the “Creating a Healthy Workplace Culture” Symposium. Sponsored by the Peterborough Health At Work Committee. Peterborough Golf & Country Club. Thursday, October 21, 2010. For more information: http://www.pcchu.ca/WH/WH-workplaceculture.html

5th Annual Mental Health in the Workplace Forum

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5th Annual Mental Health in the Workplace Forum at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. 5:00 to 6:15pm. TOPIC: We Don’t Want to Know: The Stigma of Mental Health Issues in the Workplace and What We Can Do About It
SPEAKERS:
Graham Lowe, PhD, President, The Graham Lowe Group, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta; Author, : The Quality of Work: A People-Centered Agenda and : Creating Healthy Organizations (Rotman/UTPress, 2010)
Dr. David Goldbloom, MD. Senior Medical Advisor, Education and Public Affairs, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Toronto; Vice-Chair, Mental Health Commission of Canada
MODERATOR: Dr. Melanie Carr, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor, Rotman School of Management, U of Toronto
FEE: $49 plus HST per person; $39 plus HST per person for Rotman and U of Toronto alumni (fee includes the session and 1 copy of : Creating Healthy Organizations )
TO REGISTER: events@rotman.utoronto.ca or call 416-978-4193
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/events/default.asp