High performing workplaces in the public sector
The Department of Labour’s Workplace Productivity team, the Partnership Resource Centre and the PSA have sponsored the visit of David Coats from the UK Work Foundation. Several seminars will be held around the country in late April.
“We know that hard work and smart working drives performance, productivity and wealth creation for organisations and the economy as a whole. But fulfilling, meaningful, rewarding and dignified work offers us all a sense of purpose and a means of expressing our humanity and ourselves.
The future success of our economy, and for the organisations and individuals within it, depends on our ability to plot a course between these two dimensions – Hard Work can also be Good Work.”
David Coats, The Work Foundation
David Coats has been an associate director of the Work Foundation since 2004. He worked for the British TUC for fifteen years, latterly as Head of the Economic and Social Affairs Department. He was a member of the UK’s Low Pay Commission from 2000 – 2004 and is currently a member of the Central Arbitration Committee. David has written widely on the problems and challenges facing workers and employers in the UK labour market. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the PSA, who commissioned the Work Foundations’ latest report, Reviving the Public.
Other publications by David Coats include:
- Who’s afraid of labour market flexibility? (2006)
- Raising Lazarus: The Future of Organised Labour, Fabian Society (2005)
- Healthy Work: Productive Workplaces (2005) (with Catherine Max)
- What is the “Knowledge Economy” (2005)
- An agenda for work (2005)
- Speaking Up! Voice, Industrial Democracy and Organisational Performance(2004)
- Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency (2004)
About the Work Foundation
The Work Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, that brings all sides of working organisations together to find the best ways of improving both economic performance and quality of working life. The core belief underpinning their work is “that mutual respect and motivation leads to “good work” and better performance is supported by rigorous evidence-based research.” David says, “At its simplest, the purpose of the Work Foundation, is to promote the quest for Good Work”.
David is running a number of seminars in New Zealand in April 2007, see our events page for further details.