Interests & Expertise
My primary research interest revolves around bad news in organizational life and an individual's career context, such as (mass) layoffs, denied promotions, or negative performance evaluations. I am investigating bad news across different levels of analysis, combining individual, organizational, and industry-level processes. To study this, I employ various methodological approaches, including (natural) experiments, and extensive data collection and analysis techniques such as web scraping, machine learning, or large language models. I have a particular focus on exploring how positive outcomes can be encouraged, how employees adapt their careers following negative career shocks, and how organizations face reputational issues. In other lines of research, I explore how 1) self-regulation impacts leadership effectiveness, 2) how a combination of individual- and context-related variables promotes resilience in leaders, or 3) how organizations benefit from adapting their diversity practices to support their aging workforce.
Working Groups
Dutch Sector Plan: Societal Transitions and Behavior Change
Core Member of the cross-university and cross-discipline collaboration (e.g., management, psychology, sociology, business administration).
Interlinked crises—unsustainability, climate change, and lifestyle diseases—demand synchronized shifts in systems and behavior (energy and food transitions, circular agriculture, biodiversity restoration) informed by how human behavior works. We explore those interconnections to derive an interdisciplinary, multi-level toolkit for planning, conducting, and assessing social transitions.
See also the SSH homepage for more details.
Core Member of the cross-university and cross-discipline collaboration (e.g., management, psychology, sociology, business administration).
Interlinked crises—unsustainability, climate change, and lifestyle diseases—demand synchronized shifts in systems and behavior (energy and food transitions, circular agriculture, biodiversity restoration) informed by how human behavior works. We explore those interconnections to derive an interdisciplinary, multi-level toolkit for planning, conducting, and assessing social transitions.
See also the SSH homepage for more details.
AIWitness
Member of the Behavioral and Social Science Domain.
An interdisciplinary collaboration between the RUG, Capgemini, Scotti AI, and the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, including the Dutch police, to automate witness statements using AI, following a science-backed, ethical, and fair approach. Within the RUG, collaboration between the disciplines of law, behavioral and social sciences, technology, and ethics.
See the AIWiteness Homepage for more details.
Other Positions
- External Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Faculty of Management and Law, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- I am a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior and Journal of Business and Psychology, and serve as an ad-hoc reviewer for Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Applied Psychology: An International Review, and Journal of Experimental Psychology–General.