Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Department of Technology Management
Job description
The PhD student will conduct his/her research in the project: ‘Match-making and match-breaking: Self-regulating teams and job performance in nursing homes’. The primary aim of the proposed research is to test the principles of the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model in nursing practice using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The DISC Model is a recently developed job stress model, and predicts in general that specific job resources should match specific job demands to reduce specific stress-reactions or to enhance specific performance outcomes. The proposed research is badly needed as there is a fairly small body of well-performed, theory-based, research on job stress interventions.
The current research will also focus on the role of day-specific unwinding from work. The core question is how different types of recovery opportunities at/after work (e.g., cognitive, emotional, or physical detachment) correspond to (the interplay of) job demands and job resources over different time courses to predict employee health and performance.
The core assumption is that job stress interventions targeted primarily at specific job demands and matching job resources/recovery opportunities will reduce detrimental effects and enhance beneficial effects.
Finally, as most nurses and nurses’ aides are working in teams, the research will also focus on intervention effects at the team level (e.g., the function of resource-pooling in self-regulating teams).
Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
We are looking for a candidate who meets the following requirements: a university degree (MA, MSc) in psychology (preferably in the field of Work & Organizational Psychology) or health sciences (e.g., Work and Health stream or Health Services Innovation), and affinity for business engineering. A strong interest and/or expertise in the application of statistical techniques in social sciences is highly recommended. The PhD candidate should be proficient in English (speaking and writing) as well as a good communicator. The candidate should have a strong interest in pursuing both fundamental and applied research, and in applying the proposed research in field experiments. Finally, the PhD candidate is expected to deliver a PhD thesis and a number of scientific publications within a period of 4 years.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers
Organization
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Department of Technology Management
The Department of Technology Management (TM) is a leading school in the area of industrial engineering and management science as well as innovation sciences. TM"s mission is closely tied to its pioneering work in developing an engineering perspective on business processes as well as its interdisciplinary research on transitions in societies in relation to technical changes. At the heart of our academic philosophy is the synergy between research and teaching. Moreover, TM is a decidedly small-scale department in which scholars and students together with practitioners work on critical problems at the interface of engineering, management, innovation, and human behavior. TM offers two BSc and four MSc programmes and contributes to several other educational programmes of the TU/e.
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2000 - 2500
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 jaar
Maximum hours per week: 40
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
prof.dr. J. de Jonge
Telephone number: 31(0)402472493
Or Mrs. C.J.M. van Overdijk
Telephone number: 31(0)402474409
E-mail address: pz@tue.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through the following link:Application
You can apply for this job before 02-05-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Paviljoen R 1.23
Personnel Department
Postbus 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
Nederland
E-mail: pz@tue.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber V39.449.
