California Work and Health Group (CWHG) Mission Statement

Posted by Erin Wigger on Jul 19th, 2009 in Conferences & Meetings | Comments Off

Drafted by: Karen Belkic, Paul Landsbergis and Peter Schnall

What is our purpose for doing research?

To prevent ill-health
To make healthy work a reality
To help humanize the workplace

How is this research to be conducted?

Based on sound scientific principles.
With rigorous criteria of reliability, validity and study design.
With ethics, ethics, ethics (explicate).
With recognition of the difficulties of the conduction of psychosocial stress research.
With participatory research which involves employees and employers in the research process & in their own salutogenesis.
Coordinated with other centers of research aiming toward multicenter intervention trials.
With researchers that are interactive and egalitarian.
With colleagues from other groups to co-author papers in their areas of expertise.
With an international perspective.
Collaboratively with trade unions, businesses and government agencies.

What are our responsibilities?

To all working people in their efforts to humanize the work place.
To enter public debate by the dissemination of our research findings through scientific journal articles and public education materials.
To oppose classism, sexism and racism in our own professional work.
To be prepared to debate social issues and challenge the systems that maintain the status quo at the expense of one group over another.
To exercise and/or develop scientific solidarity.
To maximize intellectual debate and dialog.
To provide support for each other and concrete aid in our efforts.
To be open on our parts to feedback.
To be honest about the limitations of our work.
To provide opportunities to discuss and reflect about difficult issues.
To review each others articles.
To acknowledgment each others reviews.
To respect each others work in progress (scientific integrity).
To challenge the dominant mode of doing research, where someone else’s success is a threat to ourselves.
On the contrary, To celebrate each others success.

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