HRM Professor appointed to Scottish Government Independent Review Group

Professor Patricia Findlay has been appointed to an independent review of workplace policies that will see trade unions, businesses and academics working together with the Scottish Government to create better working environments. Of the eight members, Professor Findlay is the only academic appointee.

The review, titled Working together: progressive workplace policies in Scotland, aims to improve workplace policies through effective union and employer cooperation.

Chaired by former Enterprise Minister, Jim Mather, the independent review will make recommendations on:

• Opportunities for innovation in the workplace which will enhance productivity, workplace development and build more secure and resilient labour market;
• Existing good practice, the benefits good workplace relations deliver and how they might be more widely adopted and secured;
• Opportunities to promote collective bargaining, workplace democracy, diversity and equality, including the participation of women.

The review group will report back on its findings in July 2014.

Further information is available here.