Title: Professor
Phone: (613) 520-2385
Fax: (613) 520-4427
Office: 915 Dunton Tower
Email: linda_duxbury@carleton.ca
Linda Duxbury is a noted pioneer in the field of organizational health. Over the years her interest in issues associated with managing a changing workforce has earned her a variety of awards that recognize her research, teaching and her contribution to public and private sector work places.
Linda Duxbury has done work with most departments in the federal public sector including the Treasury Board, Statistics Canada, Health Canada, DND, Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada and Transport Canada to name a few. She has also worked with most provincial governments in Canada and municipalities such as Calgary, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ottawa and Peel Region.
She has also worked with Crown Corporations, various Canadian policing departments and private sector companies in all sectors (telecom, natural resources, high technology, finance, retail). Linda has conducted interviews with many well known Canadian and International media including CBC TV and radio (National, Journal and Venture), CTV, Citizen, Globe and Mail, National Post, MacLeans, Canadian Business and many others.
Linda has also delivered invited talks and lectures in countries such as Australia, Japan, Indonesia, South Africa, Fiji and Ecuador to name a few. Linda has extensive teaching experience in the area of managing a changing workforce and has delivered lectures on this topic for numerous Universities and public and private sector companies. She has also published widely in both the academic and practitioner literature.
Research Interests
- Alternative work arrangements
- Determinants and consequences of work-family stress
- Impact of alternative work arrangements and computer technology on work-family stress
- Implementation of technology
- Management of change
- End-user computing
- Management of health care
- Tele-work
- "Electronic briefcase"
- Supportive management
- Organizational impacts of computer networks
- Managing a changing workforce
- Generational differences in work values
