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JobQuality.ca |
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Offers information and data on the quality of work and working conditions in Canada. Describes indicators of job quality and explains why they’re important to employers, employees and policy makers. Includes tables and charts, statistics, surveys and news. |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) |
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Part-time work and family-friendly practices in Canadian workplaces |
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Profiles the frequency and distribution of part-time work and family-friendly practices in Canadian workplaces. Examines the relationships between workplace characteristics or worker/job characteristics and employee and workplace outcomes.
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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The link between quality of work and health |
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Reviews research on the relationship between working conditions and the health status of workers. Examines potential health hazards of high demand jobs, monotonous jobs, non-supportive bosses, and lack of control over work. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Public Health Association (SPHA) |
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Improving work organization to reduce injury and illness: social services, stress, violence and workload |
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Discusses factors which contribute to injuries, stress, and health problems for social service workers. Reports on the rates of overwork, burnout, exposure to violence, and bullying in the workplace and recommends methods to improve health and safety. |
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Source: McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences |
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Evolution of the Canadian workplace: work from home |
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Reports on the number of Canadians working from home over the past three decades. Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this type of work arrangement. Profiles these workers, the type of work, work performance, and job quality. |
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Part-time by choice |
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Reports on people who choose to work part-time. Looks at reasons for working part-time, levels of work-related stress, job characteristics, and growth of this type of work. Contrasts this group with full-time and involuntary part-time workers. |
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Job design |
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Answers questions on what job design is, how it can help with the organization of work, features of a good job design, common approaches workplaces can take, and steps to carry out on a job design project. Provides an example of a job design checklist. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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21st century job quality trends |
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This report uses the best available evidence to assess job quality in Canada in the 21st century.
It focuses on two basic questions:
1) Has economic prosperity resulted in improvements in job
quality? and
2) Can improvements in job quality contribute to sustainable economic prosperity and
Canadians’ overall quality of life? |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks |
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Under pressure: implications of work-life balance and job stress |
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Written by Graham Lowe, this report presents new findings from two national surveys, one of employers and the other of workers, on work-life balance and job stress. It discusses the implications of these issues for employers and points to actions they can take to improve the quality of work life. Work was commissioned by Wilson Banwell Human Solutions. |
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Source: Longwoods Publishing |
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