dr. D.H. van Dun (Desirée)

Dr. Desirée van Dun is Assistant Professor at the Organizational Behaviour, Change Management & Consultancy group. OBCC fits well with her professional research and consulting expertise and aims to make a societal impact.

In 2015, Dr. van Dun completed her part-time Ph.D. research (Cum Laude) at the UT. Her dissertation, entitled "Improving Lean Team Performance: Leadership and Workfloor Dynamics," won various awards including the Overijssel PhD Award 2016 and the international 2015 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Operations and Production Management category.

In her research she typically bridges the fields of Organizational Behaviour, Change Management and Operations Management in a variety of ways. She published her work in top-tier journals like International Journal of Operations & Production Management, European Management Journal and International Review of Industrial & Organizational Psychology. She is part of the Academy of Management's Operations & Supply Chain Management division board as communications leader and has organized their doctoral student and junior faculty consortia in 2020 and 2021.

Prior to her academic career, during ten years, she also worked at House of Performance: a boutique management consultancy firm aimed at improving work floor performance. Here, she specialized in process improvement, strategy execution, change management, team-effectiveness, and (Lean) leadership development in large Dutch organizations. In 2017 she also headed their Research & Development.

Besides academic publishing, teaching, and management consulting, she frequently shares her insights through her weblog, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and AOM, EurOMA or practitioner conference presentations or workshops.

Business & Economics

# Business Performance
# Managers
# Mixed Methods
# Team Performance
# Work Behavior

Social Sciences

# Employee
# Leader
# Leadership

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems (IEBIS)

In her research Dr. Desirée van Dun typically bridges the fields of Organizational Behaviour, Change Management and Operations Management in a variety of ways. Particularly, she use high-tech research methods such as video-observation or wearables, and/or uses other types of mixed methods to study the implications of high-tech applications such as Industry 4.0 or 5.0 on the people who work within such contexts. Through her research she helps shaping Organizational Behaviour for Digital and Green Transformation.

As a researcher she is co-promotor of multiple (external) PhD students with various international backgrounds and industrial experiences. She is also involved in various multidisciplinary Master thesis projects. Moreover, she collaborates with researchers from respectable international institutes.

Tan Bee Choo, A. (2023). Leadership and Lean Innovation Training for Employee Innovative Work Behaviour in Singapore. [PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036557825

van Dun, D. H., Tortorella, G. L. , & Carminati, L. (Accepted/In press). Lean leadership across different national cultures: A comparative study. Production planning & control. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2023.2223541

Fournier, P-L., Bahl, L. , van Dun, D. H., Johnson, K., & Cadieux, J. (Accepted/In press). Let’s talk about it: The impact of nurses’ implicit voice theories on individual agility and quality of care. International journal of operations & production management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-11-2022-0752

Saptoto, R. (2023). Which Job Resources Alleviate Perceived Incivility for Employee Thriving and Performance? Time-lagged Survey Research. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555876

van Dun, D. H., & Kumar, M. (2023). Social enablers of Industry 4.0 technology adoption: Transformational leadership and emotional intelligence. International journal of operations & production management, 43(13), 152-182. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-06-2022-0370

Puspani, N. S. , van Dun, D. H. , & Wilderom, C. P. M. (2023). Adopting ‘lean and green’ in logistics firms through instrumental leader behaviours. 1-10. Paper presented at 30th EurOMA Conference "A Systems Lens on Operations" 2023, Leuven, Belgium.

Franken, J. , van Dun, D. H. , & Wilderom, C. P. M. (2023). Kaizen event process quality through awareness of group-members’ personal problem-solving styles. 1-10. Paper presented at 30th EurOMA Conference "A Systems Lens on Operations" 2023, Leuven, Belgium.

Tan, A. B. C. , van Dun, D. H. , & Wilderom, C. P. M. (2023). Lean Innovation Training and Transformational Leadership for Employee Creative Role Identity and Innovative Work Behavior in a Public Service Organization. International Journal of Lean Six Sigma. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLSS-06-2022-0126

van Dun, D. H. , Wijnmaalen, J. , & Wilderom, C. P. M. (2022). Mapping Team Dynamics through Retrospective Team Events Analysis. The International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1-14. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221120745

Nizamis, K., van Dalen, M. , van Dun, D. H., Hermsen, E. M. P. , & Sullivan, B. P. (2022). Transdisciplinary Challenge-based Learning: Multi-Stakeholder Co-creation Combining Engineering Technology and Social Sciences. Poster session presented at 3rd Barcelona Conference on Education, BCE 2022, Barcelona, Spain.

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Dr. Desirée van Dun is one of the main teachers in the Bachelor Honours track Processes of Change and coordinator of the Master Honours programme Change Leaders. In addition, she developed the International Management & Consultancy track that is part of the MSc Business Administration. Moreover, she teaches and coordinates the Change Making module of UT's award-winning Transdisciplinary Master Insert program Shaping Responsible Futures. In terms of minors, she teaches in the five-faculty Energy Transition Perspectives minor and the Going Dutch minor. She is also involved in executive educational programmes (Master of Risk Management) and regularly provide workshops for practitioners.

Master

Overig

Honoursprogramma's UT

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