Purpose - In recent years, significant demographic changes in most industrial countries have tremendously affected the age distribution of workers in organizations. In general, the workforce has become more age-diverse, providing significant and new challenges for human resource management and leadership …

Lecture held by Derk-Jan Stobbelaar and Hugo Hoofwijk at the International Living Knowledge Conference in 2012 in Bonn, Germany.

Al meer dan dertig jaar is Leren communiceren een veel gebruikt handboek in het hoger onderwijs. Of het nu gaat om communicatieonderwijs in aparte vakken of om vaardighedentraining die is geïntegreerd in projecten, stages en opdrachten, Leren communiceren is de communicatieleidraad bij uitstek. In deze …

Building on positive psychology, the present study aims to address the role of humour in the workplace, and particularly in job design, one of the crucial job aspects contributing to employee well-being. Specifically, we examine the main effects of self-enhancing and affiliative types of humour both …

Listening to students’ voices might result in the design of more effective learning practices, assuming that learning and teaching can be attuned more adequately in those practices. Therefore, research was carried out to investigate the characteristics of successful innovative learning practices using …

The way that innovation is currently done requires a new research methodology that enables co-creation and frequent, iterative evaluation in realworld settings. This paper describes the employment of the living lab methodology that corresponds to this need. Particularly, this paper presents the way that …

This paper describes the participatory development process of a web-based communication system focusing on disease management, particularly infection control of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). These infections are becoming a major public health issue; they can have serious consequences …

There is an increasing need for managers to understand what motivates younger versus older workers to continue work within their company. We believe that this two-wave study among 90 Dutch employees is the first to examine: (1) the cross-lagged relationships between breach of psychological contract (which …

De loopbaanstap van professional naar het management is doorgaans een moeilijke stap, of het nu een ingenieur, jurist, medicus of andere professional is die van het vakinhoudelijk werk tot het management geroepen wordt. Dit lezen we in de spaarzame literatuur over deze loopbaanbeweging en moet ook in …

Er is nog weinig onderzoek gedaan naar factoren die van invloed zijn op patiënttevredenheid binnen de ambulancezorg. Wij veronderstelden dat patiënten die vaker zijn vervoerd met de ambulance mogelijk kritischer zijn. Daarnaast leek het ons dat patiënten die ter plaatse behandeld worden minder tevreden …