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Linda Duxbury, Vice-President ('Day
job': Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario)
Linda Duxbury is a Professor at the School of Business, Carleton University. She received
a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the
University of Waterloo. She is the principal
investigator of a three University research team that has recently completed a
major study on Balancing Work and Family. Dr. Duxbury is also currently conducting
research which evaluates the organizational and individual impacts of E-mail, portable
office, cellular telephones, telework, compressed work week, flextime,
shiftwork, regular
part-time work and on-site day care programs, and studying what makes a
"supportive" manager. She is also currently examining the issues of human
resource management and work-family conflict in the small business sector.
Dr. Duxbury has
published widely in both the academic and practitioner literatures in the area of
work-family conflict, supportive work environments, stress, telework, and supportive
management. She has also given over 100 plenary talks on these issues to both public and
private sector audiences.
Dr. Duxbury held the Imperial
Life Chair in Women and Management from 1992 to 1996 and is current Director
of the Carleton Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work. She
sits on Carleton University Board of Governors, and is an elected member of
both the senate and senate executive of Carleton University. She can be
reached at (613) 520-2385 or by e-mail
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