Sustainable employability is essential for an aging workforce as careers extend and retirement ages rise. Organizations must adopt inclusive strategies that support older employees’ health, engagement, and productivity. Despite misconceptions about aging workers’ declining abilities, research highlights …

In het artikel "Sociale robots op de winkelvloer: toegevoegde waarde?" (Verhagen et al., 2024) onderzochten Tibert Verhagen, Stephanie van de Sanden, Ewout Nas, Jacqueline Arnoldy, Filip Otten en Koen Hindriks hoe winkelmedewerkers de inzet van sociale robots ervaren. In zeventien Nederlandse winkels, …

De werkdruk in winkels is de afgelopen jaren fors toegenomen. Onderbezetting, taakvervaging en personeelstekorten zetten medewerkers én ondernemers onder druk. Winkelpersoneel ervaart stress, valt uit of verlaat de sector, terwijl nieuwe medewerkers schaars zijn. Tegelijkertijd biedt technologische innovatie …

In het artikel "Liever een humanoïde of een niet-humanoïde robot op de winkelvloer?" (Van de Sanden et al., 2024) onderzochten Stephanie van de Sanden, Ewout Nas, Jacqueline Arnoldy, Tibert Verhagen, Filip Otten en Koen Hindriks welke type sociale robot beter past binnen een winkelomgeving: de mensachtige …

Over the last four months I have been working at Mitsubishi Turbocharger and Engine Europe B.V. (MTEE) in Almere, Netherlands. As part of my Bachelor’s thesis assignment, I was given the task to investigate the working principle of Helmholtz resonators and evaluate the factors influencing the sound …

This thesis explores the realm of books and bookstores; namely Waterstones Amsterdam in its quest to enhance their in-store customer experience. My client is Phillip Harte, Waterstones Amsterdam’s Branch Manager. This essay resorts to a key methodology, Design-Based Research, “which aims at designing, …

The revolutionary dimension of technological developments is all too often placed in the foreground, painting a picture of a future we can hardly imagine, let alone perceive. This book emphasises the evolutionary dimension of developments, and how we take small steps. How certain underlying, invariable …

Ervaringen met inductietrajecten in scholen voor voortgezet onderwijs. Tijdschrift voor Lerarenopleiders.

This chapter explores the role of Frugal Innovation (FI) in overcoming resource constraints in the hospitality sector during the so-called ‘1.5-metre-society’ (or ‘new normal life’) that was shaped by the regulations adopted to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak.

This research was motivated by an interest in exploring the extent to which the Randstad region and the Netherlands as a nation have successfully attracted real estate investment firms to locate/base themselves there. The outsize professionally managed real estate market in the country relative to the …