Nov 16
Vanaf 1 januari 2015 is de jeugdzorg gedecentraliseerd naar het gemeentelijke niveau. In samenwerking met prof. dr. Bram Steijn (EUR) en dr. Ben Kuipers (EUR) voer ik een grootschalig, longitudinaal onderzoek uit naar de gevolgen van de decentralisatie voor jeugdzorgprofessionals. Wij brengen hierbij de ervaringen van professionals over meerdere jaren in kaart. Read more
Do financial cutbacks make top-level public managers unhappy? This is the question prof. Steven Van de Walle and I examine using a large dataset of European top managers. Read more
With dr. Ben S. Kuipers and prof. dr. Sandra Groeneveld, my research has been published in Public Management Review. The article is titled: “Implementing change in public organizations: The relationship between leadership and commitment to change in a public sector context”. Read more
Public organizations are often depicted as being bureaucratic, which is believed to limit their ability to adopt innovations and implement change. At the same time, public organizations are faced with continuous demands to implement organizational change Read more
Starting on 16 March 2015, I will join the Institute of Public Administration at Campus The Hague of Leiden University as an Assistant Professor of Public Management. In this position, I will continue to pursue my research agenda, and I will teach in the institute’s Bachelor and Master Programs.
I wrote a review of prof. dr. Sandra van Thiel’s new book “Research Methods in Public Administration and Public Management: An introduction”. My review has been published in the 2014 November issue of Public Administration Review. Read more
On the 1st of October 2014, I gave a keynote speech at the Urbact JobTown (link) conference in Aveiro, Portugal. My speech addressed the relationship between financial cutbacks and innovation in public organizations. In the speech, I build on the COCOPS FP7 project (link) and a conference paper for the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) in Ottawa, Canada (2014) written together with dr. Brenda Vermeeren, on applying change management in the implementation of financial cutbacks (link). The full speech can be read below:
A research article (in collaboration with dr. Ben S. Kuipers and dr. Sandra Groeneveld) about change management in public sector organizations has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Organizational Change Management. The article is titled “Held back and pushed forward: Leading organizational change in a complex public environment” and will be published in the upcoming special issue on Organizational Change and Public Sector Work. Read more
Can change management mitigate the negative effects of cutbacks on employee wellbeing? Read more
In January 2014, an article (co-authored with Prof. dr. Steven Van de Walle, Erasmus University Rotterdam) was published in the Dutch professional journal Openbaar Bestuur. Read more
