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Dr. Linda Duxbury

Keywords:  Work-life Balance, Employee Wellbeing, role overload

Research Interests

Linda Duxbury is a Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University.  Within the past two decades (1991, 2001, 2012, 2013) she has completed major studies on  Balancing Work and Family in the public, private Sectors and not for profit sectors in which over 70,000 Canadian employees participated.  Linda has published widely in both the academic and practitioner literatures in the area of work-family conflict, change management, supportive work environments, overload and stress, telework, how the use of email impacts employee wellbeing, managing the new workforce  and supportive management.  Recently her work has focused on balancing work, childcare and eldercare. She also works closely with police services in Canada and Scotland on issues associated with police officer wellbeing.  She is currently working on four major studies exploring the impact of COVID-19 on work-life balance and employee wellbeing.

Selected Publications

Duxbury, L. and Higgins, C. (2017). Something’s Got to Give: Balancing Work, Childcare and Eldercare, University of Toronto Press: Toronto

Smith, C. and Duxbury, L.  (in Press).  It’s not just what you say, but how you say it! A case study exploring union-member communications, https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12278  Industrial Relations Journal

Halinski, M. and Duxbury, L. (In Press). Workplace flexibility and its relationship with work-interferes-with-family, Accepted for Publication, Personnel Review, 49 (1)149-166 https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-01-2019-0048

Smith, C., Duxbury, L., and Halinski, M. (2019) It’s Not Just About Paying Your Dues: Impact of Generational Cohort on Active and Passive Union Participation, Human Resource Management Journal, 29 (3), pg. 371-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12230 A ranked

Smith, C. and Duxbury, L (2019). Attitudes Towards Unions Through a Generational Cohort Lens, The Journal of Social Psychology, 159 (2), 190-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2019.1570906