Managers van publieke organisaties kunnen in de beeldvorming op weinig sympathie rekenen. Het beeld is dat er teveel van zijn, dat ze vervreemd zijn van de werkvloer en de verkeerde dingen doen. Artikel over promotieonderzoek en boek 'De vooruitgeschoven middenvelder' van Vincent de Waal. Vincent de …

Safety is monitored by various proactive and reactive methods, including the investigation of adverse accidents and incidents, which are collectively known as safety investigations. In this study we demonstrate how accident and incident investigation reports can be useful to identify implicit safety …

Purpose: To facilitate the design of viable business models by proposing a novel business model design framework for viability. Design: A design science research method is adopted to develop a business model design framework for viability. The business model design framework for viability is demonstrated …

In Leading to engage Karolien Dons explores the ways in which musicians and elderly participants of a collaborative music activity experience and contribute to the sense of inclusion. Through qualitative research strategies involving a theory-generating ethnographic exploration of existing practices …

Lean Production (LP) can be regarded as a design approach in search of a theoretical foundation. In this paper we show that Lowlands’ Sociotechnical Design Theory (STSL) could function as such a foundation. To reach this goal, we first describe STSL as a system theoretical reformulation of Original Sociotechnical …

Nursing homes face ever-tightening healthcare budgets and are searching for ways to increase the efficiency of their healthcare processes without losing sight of the needs of their residents. Optimizing the allocation of care workers plays a key role in this search as care workers are responsible for …

Dit artikel beschrijft de resultaten van een handelingsonderzoek naar de manier waarop professionals netwerksteun en netwerkgesprekken voor mantelzorgers kunnen ondersteunen. Het onderzoek is samen met professionals uitgevoerd in achterstandswijken in Rotterdam. Het doel was om enerzijds inzicht te krijgen …

Deze presentatie gaat over een onderzoeksproject van het Kenniscentrum Arbeid van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen waarin het effect van de inzet van sensortechnologie op duurzame inzetbaarheid van medewerkers van een klein bedrijf is onderzocht. Om de duurzame inzetbaarheid van werknemers te optimaliseren …

Sharing data is gaining importance in recent years due to proliferation of social media and a growing tendency of governments to gain citizens’ trust through being transparent. Data dissemination, however, increases chance of compromising privacy sensitive data, which undermines trust of data subjects …