Robin Bauwens

Tilburg University | UVT · Department of Human Resource Studies

Although leadership is critical for overcoming the challenges of digital technologies (DTs), their mutual relationships remain poorly understood. By reviewing 257 peer-reviewed articles, this study builds on adaptive structuration theory (AST) and institutional logics to identify six different relationships among leadership, DTs, and institutional...

The leader in ‘context’. Special issue ‘The new clothes of the leader (m/f/x): Leadership in times of digitalization, globalization, and flexibilization’ (part 2) This article introduces the second and f inal part of the special issue ‘Leadership in times of digitalization, globalization, and flexibilization’. This part of the special issue brin...

Managers are increasingly expected to coach their employees. However, managers are often ill equipped and lack the necessary support from their organization to effectively implement coaching behavior. Based on strengths theory, we propose that a strengths spotting intervention could help managers to develop their coaching behavior. In addition, bas...

This article introduces the first part of special issue ‘Leadership in times of digitalization, globalization, and flexibilization’. More than ever, leadership has become a battle of perceptions, where leaders’ style, tone, and com�munication skills determine success. This special issue on contemporary leadership challenges encompasses three stu...

Purpose Drawing upon self-determination theory (SDT) and the proactive motivation model, this study examined how inclusive leadership is related to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) through psychological need satisfaction (PNS). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a large Dutch private company in the financial sector (N =...

Recently, strengths used at the team level, that is, collective strengths use, has been introduced as a novel construct that consists of the sub-dimensions of strengths awareness, credibility, and coordination, and influences individual as well as team performance. In this study, we developed a scale to measure this novel construct; moreover, we em...

Purpose: Despite increasing attention to employee development, past research has mostly studied performance management systems (PMS) in relation to task-related behaviors compared to proactive behaviors. Accordingly, this study addresses the relation between PMS and innovative work behavior (IWB). Design/methodology: Building on signaling theory an...

This article addresses the impact of leader psychological need satisfaction on employees. We draw on the self-determination theory (SDT) and leader-member exchange (LMX) theory to investigate if and how leader psychological need satisfaction trickles down to employee psychological need satisfaction. Adopting a multi-actor, multilevel design, result...

In 2018 investeerde meer dan de helft van de Nederlandse kinderdagverblijven in nieuwe technologische hulpmiddelen. Vooral hulpmiddelen die de interne werkprocessen, contact met de ouders of opleiding van kinderbegeleiders ten goede kwamen, bleken populair. Hoewel dit in Vlaanderen wat rustiger verloopt, zie we ook hier een gestage 'digitalisering'...

In a context where the amount of red tape in healthcare organizations continues to rise, head nurses’ job satisfaction is constantly under pressure. By building on the Job Demands-Resources model, we developed a theoretical model investigating the relationship between red tape and job satisfaction. By investigating the mediating role of discretiona...

Since workers are increasingly suffering from burnout, there is a need for insights into how burnout can be decreased to improve subjective well-being. The broaden-and-build theory proposes that gratitude increases well-being through an upward spiral. Few studies have examined whether gratitude decreases burnout and what mediating behaviors explain...

Purpose: Recent studies have called for more contextual studies of technostress and the role leaders can have in this experience. While technostress is an increasingly prevalent and severe phenomenon in care professions, limited studies have addressed its potential negative consequences for employee well-being and quality of care delivered in this...

This paper deals with the question of how we can improve performance management systems in higher education institutions. Performance management systems are defined as configurations of complementary human resource management (HRM) practices that enable organizations to set goals, give feedback and evaluate the efforts of their employees. Higher ed...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges for society. The effects on organizations have been drastic and such tough times have demanded new organizational solutions as well as strong and new forms of organizational leadership. Leadership scholars have accelerated their research efforts in the quest to identify what is needed t...

This debate article deals with an important contemporary topic in public organizations, namely that of ‘digital’ red tape. While initial predictions were that modern information and communication technologies (ICT) would eradicate bureaucratic red tape, scholars now contend that ICT rather ‘automates’ or reproduces red tape. In this piece, we build...

While a growing number of teachers use information and communication technology (ICT) for work tasks outside of formal working hours, research is inconclusive how this relates to their work-life balance. Following calls to examine the antecedents and moderating mechanisms of such behavior, the present study aims to examine how technology acceptance...

This article extends the job demands–resources model in the public sector by including (a) crosslevel (moderation) effects of job demands and resources, (b) positive and non linear effects of job demands and (c) vitality as a key work engagement concept. Data on expected contributions and developmental rewards in public university colleges (n = 65...

The public sector requires job crafting from employees so that they can better cope with overdemanding jobs due to layer upon layer of public management reforms. Simultaneously, however, red tape and austerity constrain job autonomy. This study therefore tests how job crafting can be fostered in public organizations by studying social resources at...

Performance management (PM) can alienate employees from experiencing societal impact. This is problematic since societal impact influences employees’ job satisfaction. To avoid such unintended effects, we investigate two conditions under which PM could instead benefit the societal impact and job satisfaction of employees: consistency and leader-mem...

The capacity and willingness of employees to deploy their creativity in the pursuit of organisational goals is a cornerstone of many organisations’ competitive advantage. Drawing on the actor-context interactionist perspective on creativity, we propose that insecure attachment styles act as distal antecedents that reduce employee creativity through...

Purpose – Drawing upon organizational justice theory, we examine how perceptions of performance management fairness affect burnout and organizational citizenship behaviors among academic employees. Methods – Data from 532 academic employees from a university in Flanders (Belgium) was analyzed using structural equation modelling. Findings – Academic...

This study focuses on employee performance management in policing. We specifically aim to contribute to a better understanding of how the combined effect of performance planning and performance evaluation fosters the well-being of police officers. In the slipstream of public sector reforms many public organizations adopted employee performance mana...

Hoewel performance management leidt tot een aantoonbare verbetering van de kwaliteit en kwantiteit van het onderzoek dat academici af-leveren (McCormack, Propper en Smith, 2014), bestaat het risico dat zulke systemen van personeelsbeheer het welzijn van academici aantasten (Franco-Santos en Doherty, 2017). Dit is zeker het geval bij jonge academici...