Irene Niks- Doctor of Philosophy
- Researcher at TNO, Leiden, Netherlands
Irene Niks
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Researcher at TNO, Leiden, Netherlands
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Introduction
Current institution
TNO, Leiden, Netherlands
Current position
- Researcher
Publications
Publications (23)
Introduction
Psychosocial occupational risks cause human suffering and high costs for companies and society. Work-related stress is high in the Netherlands in sectors with high labour shortages (education, healthcare). All this makes it an important topic of OSH policy in the Netherlands. With its research programme, TNO supports the government and...
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased remote work and hybrid working is becoming common post-pandemic. This study’s objective is to observe how work location (home or office) affects the daily well-being (i.e., daily perceived stress and daily work pleasure) of older-aged office workers (aged ≥ 45), particularly regarding the role of rel...
Objective:
Work stress is a serious problem for employees in primary education. This study evaluates the effects of a work stress prevention approach on emotional exhaustion and work stress determinants (job crafting behavior, quantitative and emotional demands, leadership, support, autonomy, team culture and feelings of competence), and the impac...
Background After a quick rise of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid working (i.e., remote and on-site) is becoming common post-pandemic. This study aimed to investigate to what extent work location (i.e., office or home) affects daily associations between psychological need satisfaction (i.e., perceived relatedness and autonomy) and w...
This study demonstrates an innovative approach to capture the complexity of individual workplace well-being, improving our understanding of multicausal relationships and feedback loops involved. The literature shows that a high number of interacting factors are related to individual workplace well-being. However, many studies focus on subsets of fa...
Background
Work stress is a serious problem in primary education. Decades of research underline the importance of participatory, organizational-level work stress prevention approaches. In this approach, measures are planned to tackle causes of work stress in a participatory manner and implemented by a working group consisting of members of the orga...
ABSTRACT
Background: Shift work can be demanding owing to disturbances in the biological and social rhythms. This can cause short-term negative effects in employees, such as increased fatigue and reduced alertness. A potential way to counteract these negative effects is to enhance employees’ recovery from work during working hours.
Objective: The a...
In dit artikel kijken we naar trends in generieke maatregelen en maatwerkafspraken (i-deals) voor langer doorwerken en naar ontwikkelingen over tijd in de duurzame inzetbaarheid van werknemers. Hierbij gaan we specifiek in op verschillen tussen werkgevers op basis van vestigingsgrootte, profit of non-profit, de aan- of afwezigheid van een brancheor...
Duurzame inzetbaarheid houdt in dat werkenden nu en in de toekomst kunnen en willen blijven werken. In een continu veranderende en veeleisende werkcontext lijkt het beschikken over veerkracht een belangrijke voorwaarde voor duurzame inzetbaarheid. De vraag is of dit daadwerkelijk zo is, en zo ja, hoe veerkracht vanuit de werkomgeving kan worden ver...
BACKGROUND
Shift work can be demanding owing to disturbances in the biological and social rhythms. This can cause short-term negative effects in employees, such as increased fatigue and reduced alertness. A potential way to counteract these negative effects is to enhance employees’ recovery from work during working hours.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this...
Background:
Shift work can be demanding due to disturbances of biological and social rhythms. This can cause short-term negative effects for employees, such as increased levels of fatigue and reduced alertness. A potential way to counteract these negative effects is to enhance employees' recovery from work during working hours.
Objective:
The ai...
Background: Burnout is a persisting problem, despite years of research efforts into causes and interventions. The factors causing burnout are complex and multi-vectoral, they evolve over time, and team dimensions are involved. Currently used interventions not always consider the full complexity of the problem and this might be a reason for the lack...
Introduction
Researchers have been focusing on a new concept in the realm of work-related stress: technology-induced stress, or “technostress”. As the term suggests, it includes all forms of stress that result from working with technology. Technostress is an obvious challenger of wellbeing in the workplace and -given its novelty- it is a concept wo...
De afgelopen jaren is er veel geëxperimenteerd met vormen van arbeidsgerichte zorg in de eerstelijnszorg. Desondanks is er tot op heden geen effectieve aanpak voor dit type zorg, waar op grote schaal gebruik van wordt gemaakt. In het project ‘Arbeidsgerelateerde zorg in de eerste lijn’ wordt op basis van bewezen effectieve componenten een geïntegre...
Effective interventions to prevent work stress and to improve health, well-being, and performance of employees are of the utmost importance. This quasi-experimental intervention study presents a specific method for diagnosis of psychosocial risk factors at work and subsequent development and implementation of tailored work stress interventions, the...
We developed and validated a scale to measure employees’ perceived opportunity to craft (POC) in two separate studies conducted in the Netherlands (total N = 2329). POC is defined as employees’ perception of their opportunity to craft their job. In Study 1, the perceived opportunity to craft scale (POCS) was developed and tested for its factor stru...
Detachment from work during non-work time is generally related to a decrease in work-related strain. However, it might also hamper employees’ generation of new and useful ideas about work by completely shutting off work-related thoughts and/or feelings outside of work. In this day-level study, we used a within-person design to investigate the role...
It is well-known that recovery from work and job resources can counteract negative effects of high job demands, but less is known about how off-job recovery and job resources are related to each other. In this two-level daily diary study, 67 employees filled out daily surveys over the course of 8 days to examine this issue. Consistent with our expe...
It is well-known that health care workers in today's general hospitals have to deal with high levels of job demands, which could have negative effects on their health, well-being, and job performance. A way to reduce job-related stress reactions and to optimize positive work-related outcomes is to raise the level of specific job resources and oppor...
Dit onderzoek beoogt aan de hand van het motivationele proces van het Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model meer inzicht te bieden in de rol van zowel positieve emoties als positief psychologisch kapitaal (PsyCap) bij de totstandkoming van bevlogenheid bij werknemers. Verwacht werd dat positieve emoties zowel het verband tussen energiebronnen (i.e. re...
