Peter Vlerick

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Background Workplace telepressure and private life telepressure refer to the preoccupation with and the urge to respond quickly to electronic messages from people at work or in private life, respectively. We aimed to adapt and validate workplace and private life telepressure measures in French and to explore their nomological networks and relations...

Background. Microbial food safety risk governance (MFSRG) is a systematic, continuous multistakeholder process aiming to ensure a high level of microbial food safety in society as well as to build and maintain trust and understanding among all stakeholder groups involved in the food system. MFSRG can only be effective if both risk assessment data a...

Background. Microbial food safety risk governance (MFSRG) is a systematic, continuous multistakeholder process aiming to ensure a high level of microbial food safety in society as well as to build and maintain trust and understanding among all stakeholder groups involved in the food system. MFSRG can only be effective if both risk assessment data a...

In the food industry, a mature food safety culture (FSC) is linked to better food safety performance. However, the relationship between FSC maturity and key economical performance indicators, such as cost allocation, remains unexplored. This research is the first pilot study to empirically explore the association between FSC maturity and cost of qu...

Three facets of food safety culture (FSC) (i.e., food safety management system (FSMS), human-organizational and human-individual building block), were diagnosed through a validated mixed-method assessment in twenty food processing companies. Many underdeveloped dimensions were detected in the FSMS and the human-organizational building block, while...

Personal protective equipment (PPE), including personal garments as well as in-room devices, is crucial to minimize ionizing radiation exposure during fluoroscopy-guided procedures. However, recent studies have highlighted a lack of knowledge and awareness between and within departments about the use and risks of ionizing radiation and radiation sa...

Introduction Engaging in meaningful activities contributes to health and well-being. Therefore, it is important to measure this with reliable and valid evaluation tools. The Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey (EMAS-VL) has been cross-culturally validated in Flemish and the psychometric properties determined. Method The adaptation process f...

Introduction Meaningful activities contribute to wellbeing, health, and quality of life. Understanding the brain mechanisms that underlie the attribution of meaning to activities is crucial for further comprehension of human functioning and health. Method An explorative electroencephalographic study including thirteen females. A visual paradigm wit...

Background The daily working life of many employees requires the use of modern information and communication technology (ICT) devices such as computers, tablets, and smartphones. The double-edged nature of digital work environments has been increasingly highlighted. Benefits such as increased flexibility come at a personal cost. One of the potentia...

Título: Contribución de la participación en actividades significativas sobre la salud mental en población española durante el confinamiento por CO-VID-19. Resumen: Introducción: Durante el confinamiento provocado por el CO-VID-19 en España, los ciudadanos tuvieron que dejar de realizar activida-des de forma habitual, lo cual podría haber tenido un...

Introduction Engaging in meaningful activities contributes to health and wellbeing. Research identifies meaningfulness by analysing retrospective and subjective data such as personal experiences in activities. Objectively measuring meaningful activities by registering the brain (fNIRS, EEG, PET, fMRI) remains poorly investigated. Methods A systema...

Scope and approach The prevailing food integrity culture of four Belgian food companies was assessed through a validated method triangulation. The relation between the perceived food integrity climate, the performed food integrity and the companies' food fraud vulnerability was analyzed in view of employees' demographic characteristics (i.e. age, s...

Current food safety technological solutions and management systems need to be complemented with more-comprehensive food integrity tools and strategies to address, control and prevent food fraud throughout the global supply chain. In this paper, the novel construct of food integrity culture is introduced. Its definition is presented and its operatio...

Communication technology enables employees to be constantly connected at the cost of potentially blurring the boundaries between work and private life, which can be detrimental to their well-being. The present study utilised a quantitative diary approach (N = 269 employees, N = 1256 data points) to provide further evidence on the association betwee...

Background: The hybrid room (HR) is a complex, high-risk environment, requiring teams (surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, technologists) to master various skills, including the 'As Low As Reasonably Achievable' principle of radiation safety. This prospective single center cohort reports the first use of the Operating Room Black Box (ORBB) in a H...

Given the need to prevent food fraud within the international food supply chain and the current lack of research on food integrity, in this paper, the relation between the organizational food integrity climate and employees’ food integrity behavior is examined to understand the role of the individual or psychological dimension in food integrity. Th...

Introduction The food safety culture research field still remains limited in terms of the process needed to achieve food safety culture improvement. Purpose : This paper proposes a food safety culture diagnosis and gap analysis methodology, as the first two steps in the food safety culture improvement roadmap. The diagnosis identifies what dimensi...

Objective: This study aimed to assess the relationship between surgeons' leadership style and team behavior in the hybrid operating room through video coding. Secondly, possible fluctuations in leadership styles and team behavior during operative phases were studied. Summary/backgrounddata: Leadership is recognized as a key component to successf...

Managing food integrity within a food business represents a novel dimension in food safety management. In this study, the prevailing food integrity climate of different food companies was analysed and compared across two distinct countries (Belgium and Saudi Arabia), and its relation with various organisational characteristics was examined. A quant...

Purpose Preventing burnout and promoting psychological well-being in nurses are of great importance. In this study the effect of an online, stand-alone individualized preventive program for nurse burnout based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is described and explained. Design/methodology/approach A mixed method study with an explanatory sequ...

Development of wearable mental workload (MWL) measures thrives, especially as leveraged by Industry 4.0. When employees object to wearing such gauges; however, research efforts might end up redundant. Based on self-determination and communication theories, this study assumed that employees’ acceptability of wearable MWL-monitoring is shaped by fram...

Current scientific research and industry guidelines focus on food safety, aiming to reduce unintentional food contaminations through technological and managerial measures. Due to the deceptive nature of food fraud, the fight to prevent intentional food adulteration and counterfeiting threats requires an approach that goes beyond the common food saf...

Background The spread of COVID-19 has affected people’s daily lives, and the lockdown may have led to a disruption of daily activities and a decrease of people’s mental health. Aim To identify correlates of adults’ mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium and to assess the role of meaningful activities in particular. Methods A cross-...

Collaborative robots ('cobots') will have a prominent place within the emerging fourth industrial revolution. Today, it is however unknown how operators relate to this cobot (r)evolution. Here, we deployed a survey and a short semi-structured interview to exploratively gauge the perceived job threat by and the acceptability of cobots and their cobo...

Collaboratieve robots (cobots) zullen een prominente plaats innemen op de productievloer van de aankomende vierde industriële revolutie. Het is vandaag echter onbekend hoe operatoren zich positioneren ten aanzien van deze cobot(r)evolutie. Deze exploratieve studie onderzocht met een vragenlijst en een kort semi-gestructureerd interview de ervaren b...

Background: The spread of COVID-19 has affected people’s daily lives and the lockdown may have led to a disruption of daily activities and a decrease of people’s mental health. Aim: To identify correlates of adults’ mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium and to assess the role of meaningful activities in particular. Methods: A cross-...

The operating environment for food safety interventions in nations such as Saudi Arabia, with limited local agricultural productivity, high reliance on foreign food imports and observance of Islamic laws, is remarkably challenging for the national control and regulatory institutions, since compliance to the mandatory food safety regulations and the...

Manual assembly in the future Industry 4.0 workplace will put high demands on operators' cognitive processing. The development of mental workload (MWL) measures therefore looms large. Physiological gauges such as electroencephalography (EEG) show promising possibilities, but still lack sufficient reliability when applied in the field. This study pr...

Aim To examine whether the presence of a mobile phone has a moderating role in the relationship between nurses’ private life telepressure and workplace cognitive failure. Design Cross‐sectional quantitative study using self‐report questionnaires. Methods Data were collected between December 2019 – January 2020. In total, 849 Registered Nurses fro...

Email is ubiquitous at the workplace. However, only few studies have empirically investigated the cognitive underpinning of computer-mediated business communication in general or work-related email behaviour in particular. In this paper, we further explored the relationship between workplace telepressure and two specific behavioural outcomes (i.e.,...

Purpose In laparoscopy, the Operating Room Black Box® (ORBB) provides insights into operative performance to improve patient safety. This technology may also enhance endovascular surgical practice; however, the use of a C-arm and X-rays pose important challenges, hindering transferability to an endovascular context. We describe the first implementa...

Purpose: Radiation safety performance is often evaluated using dose parameters measured by personal dosimeters and/or the C-arm, which provide limited information about teams' actual radiation safety behaviors. This study aimed to develop a rating scale to evaluate team radiation safety behaviors more accurately and investigate its reliability. M...

Stress has become an inherent aspect of the nursing profession. Chronically experienced work stress can lead to burnout. Although situational stressors show a significant influence on burnout, their power to predict the complete syndrome is rather limited. After all, stressors only exist “in the eye of the beholder”. This study aimed to explore how...

Background Good radiation safety practice in the angiosuite is essential to protect patients and healthcare workers. Most strategies aim to advance radiation safety through technological upgrades and educational initiatives. However, safety literature suggests that additional ways to improve radiation safety in the angiosuite do exist. The safety c...

Human operators in the upcoming Industry 4.0 workplace will face accelerating job demands such as elevated cognitive complexity. Unobtrusive objective measures of mental workload (MWL) are therefore in high demand as indicated by both theory and practice. This pilot study explored the wearability and external validity of pupillometry, a MWL measure...

Purpose Apart from organizational issues, quality of inter-professional collaboration during ethical decision-making may affect the intention to leave one’s job. To determine whether ethical climate is associated with the intention to leave after adjustment for country, ICU and clinicians characteristics. Methods Perceptions of the ethical climate...

As Industry 4.0 will greatly challenge employee mental workload (MWL), research on objective wearable MWL-monitoring is in high demand. However, numerous research lines validating such technology might become redundant when employees eventually object to its implementation. In a pilot study, we manipulated two ways in which employees might perceive...

Technology has drastically reshaped the workplace over the past decades. While it provides organizations and their employees a variety of benefits, there is also a growing perception that technological advancements (e.g., the evolution from telephone to smartphone) in the workplace may have a negative impact on employees’ mental health. Using a dia...

In de praktijk en uit eerder empirisch onderzoek blijkt dat cv-screening niet altijd zorgt voor geschikte kandidaten voor een vacature. Verschillende zaken kunnen hiervan de oorzaak zijn: één beoordelaar voert de screening uit, waardoor cognitieve vertekeningen het selectieproces kunnen beïnvloeden; de beoordeling focust niet op alle relevante aspe...

Background This monocentric study aimed to explore whether key non-technical attributes can be reliably measured in a mixed population of candidates applying for surgical training, surgical trainees and staff and to identify any differences between these groups. Materials & methods Candidates applying for surgical training, surgical trainees and s...

Monetary Intelligence Theory asserts that individuals apply their money attitude to frame critical concerns in the context and strategically select certain options to achieve financial goals and ultimate happiness. This study explores the bright side of Monetary Intelligence and behavioral economics, frames money attitude in the context of pay and...

Objectives: Although social capital approach has showed its merits in predicting well-being and health in the working environment, studies examining the relation between social capital and burnout are scarce and limited to cross-sectional studies in the health care sector. This study aims to explore the longitudinal relationship between workplace...

The advantages and added value of applying method triangulation to gain a more comprehensive evaluation of the prevailing food safety culture in catering establishments is illustrated by means of a case study. Three methods are applied assessing the food safety culture in food service operations of a Flemish University spread over different locatio...

The growing need for mental workload (MWL) optimization on the shop floor yields an impressive increase in theoretical and applied references to the concept of mental workload (Young et al. 2014). However, do we really understand and agree upon what mental workload exactly is? Does it include emotional load? Can we rely upon an explanatory framewor...

Introduction/Background Rehabilitation services are increasingly targeting involvement in daily life. Within the ICF this is referred to as participation. Questions regarding its conceptualization have been raised and a consensus is lacking. Material and method In a first phase a critical review of the literature was performed to detect recurring...

Background: Rehabilitation services are increasingly targeting involvement in daily life. In the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health this is referred to as "participation". How-ever, questions have arisen regarding the conceptualization of participation, and consensus is lacking. Methods: The first phase of this st...

The impact of organizational characteristics on food safety management systems is already intensively studied. Recently, scientific research goes beyond the managerial and technical aspects of the food safety management system, incorporating the impact of human behavior by exploring the food safety climate in food companies. In this study the food...

Monetary intelligence theory asserts that individuals apply their money attitude to frame critical concerns in the context and strategically select certain options to achieve financial goals and ultimate happiness. This study explores the dark side of monetary Intelligence and behavioral economics—dishonesty (corruption). Dishonesty, a risky prospe...

Introduction Academic research has elaborated the impact of physical demands (PD) on musculoskeletal health for employees in physically demanding jobs. Studies investigating musculoskeletal complaints (MSC) are mainly cross-sectional, which is a limitation to draw conclusions on causality. In addition the role of psychosocial factors on the work fl...

A Design Science Research project is presented, describing the creation of an Information System for the assessment of human competences while supporting learning. First, requirements that emanate from current mainstream competence evaluation practice are introduced. Then, design principles are presented to address the design requirements. Finally,...

Background Literature depicts differences in ethical decision-making (EDM) between countries and intensive care units (ICU). Objectives To better conceptualise EDM climate in the ICU and to validate a tool to assess EDM climates. Methods Using a modified Delphi method, we built a theoretical framework and a self-assessment instrument consisting o...

The evaluation of food safety culture in a food company is influenced by human factors such as employees' tendency to respond to social desirability – a reflection of respondents’ tendency to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others. Building on previous research a self-assessment scale consisting of 18-statements (FSDRS...

Given the increasing criticism on common assessment practices (e.g. assessments using rubrics), the method of Comparative Judgement (CJ) in assessments is on the rise due to its opportunities for reliable and valid competence assessment. However, up to now the emphasis in digital tools making use of CJ has lied primarily on efficient algorithms for...

Background Previous research demonstrated the influence of food safety climate on the food safety output of food companies on an organizational (company) level. At the individual level, the relation between food safety climate and employees' food safety behavior still has to be unraveled. Therefore, the conceptual food safety culture model of De Bo...

Human behavior and decision-making of employees can be influenced by the food safety climate prevailing in an organization. Four farm based and four affiliated centrally managed butcheries were screened on their food safety climate and level of implemented food safety management system, by application of self-assessment questionnaires. Besides, by...

Nowadays, comparative judgment (CJ) emerged as an alternative method for assessing competences and performances (e.g. Pollitt, 2012). In this method, various assessors compare independently several representations of different students and decide each time which of them demonstrate the best performance of the given competence. This study investigat...

Background: Up to now scientific research focused on analytical methods, food processing technology and product formulations as technological solutions and food safety management systems as managerial solutions to improve the hygiene and safety status of food products along the food supply chain. However, in practice, a well elaborated and 'fit for...

To examine the relationship between perceived authentic leadership and two dimensions of thriving (learning and vitality) among nurses, and to study the mediating role of empathy in this relationship. Nurses' thriving is a key asset for health care organisations, and its significant role warrants the need to identify the underlying key determinants...

In het hoger onderwijs wordt steeds vaker met performance assessments gewerkt om competenties van studenten te evalueren. Docenten worstelen echter met hoe performance assessments het beste kunnen scoren. Meestal wordt hier een combinatie van criterialijsten en holistisch scoren voor gebruikt. Deze methode leidt echter niet altijd tot betrouwbare r...

A closer look at the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Model: the role of match, functional self-regulation and personal characteristics A closer look at the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Model: the role of match, functional self-regulation and personal characteristics The Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model is a theoretical model...

We retrospectively compared a protocol using sufentanil and ropivacaine intrathecally with a protocol in which only ropivacaine was administered intrathecally and sufentanil was used epidurally to evaluate whether banning sufentanil from the intrathecal space results in a decreased incidence of adverse fetal heart rate changes. Some 520 cardiotocog...

This study examines the motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model in a sample of recently dismissed (voluntary and involuntary) Flemish employees (N = 213). Specifically, the relations between three work-related resources (perceived employability, social support, and acceptance of feedback given during the exit conversation) an...

The motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources Model among voluntary and involuntary dismissed employees during the term of notice The motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources Model among voluntary and involuntary dismissed employees during the term of notice This study examines the motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources...

The present study investigates the issue of match between job demands and job resources in the prediction of changes in job-related well-being outcomes as outlined by the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) model. Job demands, resources, and well-being outcomes are considered to be multidimensional constructs comprising physical, cognitive, a...

To report the impact of transformational leadership on two dimensions of nurses' safety performance (i.e. safety compliance and safety participation) and to study the mediating role of knowledge-related job characteristics in this relationship. Safety performance refers to the behaviours that employees exhibit to adhere to safety guidelines and to...

The aim of this study was to analyse the impact of the effort–reward imbalance and learning motivation on sickness absence duration and sickness absence frequency among beginning teachers in Flanders (Belgium). A total of 603 teachers, who recently graduated, participated in this study. Effort–reward imbalance and learning motivation were assessed...

In this study, we develop a theory of Monetary Intelligence, and explore satisfaction with pay and life from the virtuous money smart perspective: In order to enjoy high pay satisfaction and life satisfaction, money smart individuals must become good stewards and curb their love-of-money motive. We collect data from 6,586 managers in 32 geopolitica...

There has been increasing interest in cross-national research that attempts to understand differences and similarities among employees from different cultures and nations. One of the basic issues of concern to organizational researchers is the health and well-being of employees, and it has been viewed as both a response to the work environment and...

In the present study, the relation between emotional job demands and emotional exhaustion was investigated, as was the moderating role of emotional job resources and emotional support seeking on this relation. We hypothesized a positive lagged effect of emotional job demands on emotional exhaustion, and proposed that this relation is weakened by th...

In this study, we first operationalized distributed leadership. Multilevel confirmatory factor analyses showed that distributed leadership can be defined from different dimensions: quality and distribution of support and supervision performed by the leadership team; cooperation within this team; and participative decision making. Second, the relati...

This paper examines the factorial validity and measurement invariance of the Dutch version (UBOS-A) of the Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey (MBI-GS). Confirmatory factor analyses of data from security guards (n = 544) and employees of a technology company (n = 799) reveal that the fit of the oblique three factor model with the factors Exh...

Research note: The factorial validity and measurement invariance of the Dutch version (UBOS-A) of the Maslach Burnout Inventory Research note: The factorial validity and measurement invariance of the Dutch version (UBOS-A) of the Maslach Burnout Inventory This paper examines the factorial validity and measurement invariance of the Dutch version (UB...

To report a study exploring prospective relations between nurses' perceived work ability and three forms of turnover intentions, respectively, intent to leave the ward, organization and profession. Turnover of nursing staff is a major challenge for healthcare settings and for healthcare in general, urging the need to improve retention. Survey. Base...

Teaching requires much emotion work which takes its toll on teachers. Emotion work is usually studied from one of two perspectives, a job or an individual perspective. In this study, we assessed the relative importance of these two perspectives in predicting emotional exhaustion. More than 200 teachers completed a questionnaire comprising the DISQ...

The triple-match principle (TMP) proposes that the strongest, interactive relationships between job demands and job resources are observed when job demands, job resources and job-related outcomes are based on qualitatively identical dimensions. This principle is tested with regard to three outcomes: cognitive failure, emotional exhaustion, and phys...

Only in a few longitudinal studies it has been examined whether job resources should be matched to job demands to show stress-buffering effects of job resources (matching hypothesis), while there are no empirical studies in which the moderating effect of matching personal characteristics on the stress-buffering effect of job resources has been exam...

The aim of this study was to analyse the impact of the effort–reward imbalance (ERI) model on intent to leave the current organization (ITL organization) and intent to leave the nursing profession (ITL profession) in a prospective way. A total of 1,531 health care workers who remained in their job filled in a self-administered questionnaire at base...