David Coats
Associate Professor
Business and management
Smith Institute:
United Kingdom
Biography
David Coats is recognised as an expert commentator on employment relations and quality of working life issues, drawing on his experience at the TUC and The Work Foundation.he was Head of the TUC’s Economic and Social Affairs Department managing work on economic and industrial policy, the welfare state, public services and the development of partnership at work, having first joined the TUC in 1989 as an employment law specialist. In 2004 he became Associate Director at The Work Foundation
Research Interest
His research interet includesthe possesion of welfare state, public services and the development of partnership at work He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Involvement and Participation Association, a number of academic advisory panels and the steering committee of Unions 21
Publications
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Employment, Wages and Labour Market Performance; Raising Lazarus: The Future of Organised Labour (Fabian Society) and Advancing Opportunity:
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An Agenda for Work: The Work Foundation’s Challenge to Policy Makers; Speaking Up! Voice Industrial Democracy and Organisational Performance; Good Work: Job Quality
