Projects
Extension of Karaseks Job Demand Control Model to workplace bullying: a longitudinal study of job demands and decision latitude as determinants of workplace bullying. KU Leuven
Adaptive Architecture: The Robotic Orchestration of a Healthy Workplace KU Leuven
Workplace attendance is struggling since before the pandemic as many employees suffer from the generic and busy environment in which they were supposed to work. The currently dominant “flexible” office made up of moveable furniture is unable to host these post-pandemic expectations because the presence and activities of workers is too unpredictable for office facility teams to constantly adapt for. As automatic vacuums and mowers already ...
Not fitting in: Person-environment fit as a parsimonious way in understanding workplace bullying. KU Leuven
While scholars have described workplace bullying as a multi-causal phenomenon in which person-related and work-related factors are closely intertwined, very limited empirical research has investigated this. In reply, this dissertation contributes to the literature in four ways. First, the multi-causal idea is operationalized and tested in a parsimonious way by introducing Person-Environment Fit (PE-fit); being the employee’s perceived ...
Understanding Workplace Cyberbullying: more than just an old problem in a new guise KU Leuven
Cyberbullying – aggressive behaviour occurring through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) (Smith et al., 2008) – has been substantially studied in research on childhood, adolescence and emerging adulthood. However, despite the impressive body of research on cyberbullying amongst youngsters as well as on offline workplace bullying, studies in the work context have largely neglected its electronic counterpart. We aim ...
Workplace mental health promotion unraveled: development and first implementation of an integrated approach to evaluate complex interventions KU Leuven
Background
The escalating prevalence of mental health disorders globally underscores an urgent need for comprehensive research and effective interventions. The World Health Organization's 2022 report reveals a concerning statistic: 13% of the global population suffers from mental disorders, with anxiety and depression being the most prevalent. These conditions not only lead to significant increases in morbidity and mortality but also ...
Learning at the workplace during formal education University of Antwerp
GDPiR: Managing Data Processing in the Workplace through Industrial Relations KU Leuven
GDPiR: Managing Data Processing in the Workplace through Industrial Relations. The project idea is to provide trade unionists with adequate information and training in order to manage the dynamics connected to workers' data processing and to data processing in the workplace in the broad sense. The objective is to provide workers' organisations with the skills and knowledge needed to harness, with a proactive attitude, the potential of small ...
Business as unusual? Exploring the role of workplace innovation practices for shaping a sustainable future of work in the aftermath of a pandemic crisis. KU Leuven
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was already a lot of discussion about the future of work in times of digital transformation. The COVID-19 crisis has now put extraodirnary pressure on organisations to keep their businesses afloat. Many of them are now fully foucesed on a survival strategy, but companies and trade unions will need to move beyond firefighting interventions. This crisis presents a unique opportunity to take a long, hard ...
SCAFFOLD_ePortfolios to Scaffold Workplace Learning in Health Education Ghent University
The SCAFFOLD project answers the urgent need to innovate workplace learning in health education. It develops a validated e-Portfolio to support competence development. Current portfolios are mainly paper based, do not involve all stakeholders, are not linked to all administrative systems, not based on full competence frameworks, contain static proofs, do not build on generic procedures, or offer user training user, and do not map the full ...