Activity-Based Working (ABW) is supported by work environments that combine hot-desking with a variety of workplaces, designed to support different types of activities. While the advantages of these work environments in terms of efficiency are undisputed, their effectiveness with respect to job performance …

Binnen het SJG in Weert is de patiënttevredenheid een enorm belangrijke factor. Op de SEH wordt er dan ook veel aandacht besteed aan de patiënt, en wordt de tevredenheid gemeten aan de hand van patiëntenquêtes. Uit deze enquêtes blijkt echter dat de patiënten toch klachten uitten over de wachttijden, …

Deze bachelor thesis is geschreven naar aanleiding van het implementatietraject ‘Medische informatieverstrekking aan ouders door verpleegkundigen op de Pediatrische Intensive Care Unit (PICU)’. Dit onderwerp is gekozen vanuit de wens de tevredenheid van ouders op de PICU te vergroten, omdat er geconstateerd …

The question of how to make a city or government better by exploiting information and communication infrastructures, referred to as smart city, entails an emerging field of research. Large quantities of data are generated from these infrastructures and infusing these data into the physical infrastructure …

In the production of fermented foods, microbes play an important role. Optimization of fermentation processes or starter culture production traditionally was a trial-and-error approach inspired by expert knowledge of the fermentation process. Current developments in high-throughput 'omics' technologies …

Information sharing has become a means of gaining public trust for institutions such as governmental and scientific organizations. The transparency sought through information sharing contributes to the trust of various stakeholders such as citizens, other organizations and enterprises in such institutions. …

Purpose – In many organizations, a major part of the daily activities is perceived as concentrated work (53% in this study). Hence, a lack of privacy at the workplace may be considered as a serious environmental stressor. Activity-based work environments usually provide non-assigned private rooms, to …

Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. …

Onderzoek naar de troostende rol van de verpleegkundige aan de hand van de hoofdvraag: “Wat wordt er door verpleegkundigen verstaan onder troost en hoe speelt troost een rol binnen de verpleegkundige beroepsuitoefening?”. De gezondheidszorg is steeds meer gericht op marktwerking en kostenbeheersing, …

Organisations are increasingly becoming interdependent in order to create and deliver superior value to their customers. The resulting business mod- els of such organisations are becoming increasingly complex and difficult to de- sign, because they have to deal with multiple stakeholders and their competing …