Linda Duxbury

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Linda Duxbury is a Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. She received an M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo. Within the past decade she has completed majors study on Balancing Work and Family in the Public, Private Sectors and Not For Profit Sectors; HR and Work-Family Issues in the Small Business Sector; Management Support (What is it and Why does it Matter?); Career Development in the Public Sector and in the High Tech Sector; generational differences in work values. Dr. Duxbury also conducts research which evaluates the organizational and individual impacts of E-mail, portable offices, cellular telephones, telework, flexible work arrangements, shiftwork, regular part-time work and on-site day care programs, change management and studying what makes a "supportive" manager. She has recently completed a major a follow-up study on work-life balance in which 32,800 Canadian employees participated.

Dr. Duxbury has published widely in both the academic and practitioner literatures in the area of work-family conflict, supportive work environments, stress, telework, the use and impact of office technology, managing the new workforce and supportive management. She has also given over 250 plenary talks on these issues to both public and private sector audiences.

Within the business school at Carleton, Dr. Duxbury teaches fourth year, masters and PhD courses in Managing Change as well as the masters course in Organizational Behaviour.

Dr. Duxbury is also an accomplished trainer and speaker in the area of supportive work environments, gender and communication and the communication process.

Dr. Duxbury held the Imperial Life Chair in Women and Management from 1992 to 1996 and was director of Carleton Centre for Research on Education on Women and Work from 1996 to 1999. In 1999 she was appointed to the Fryer Commission on Labour-Management Relations in the Federal Government. In May 2000 Dr. Duxbury was awarded the Public Service Citation from the Association of Public Service Executives for her work on supportive work environments. In Oct. 2002 she was awarded the Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award for her “pioneering efforts, creativity, innovation and leadership” in the field of organizational health.

In 2002-03 she won the Carleton University Student’s Association 2002-2003 Teaching Excellence Award for her “ability to convey enthusiasm, responsibility in teaching practices, approachability and communication skills.”

In 2003-04 she was awarded the Canadian Pension and Benefits National Speaker Award, and won the Sprott MBA Student Society "Best Teacher Award" for her “ability to effectively convey complex concepts and theories to her student, challenge, empower and stimulate her students intellectually, mentor her students and create a fun, open and friendly class atmosphere.”

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