This week, our study of the use of performance measurement in hospitals was published in Health Care Management Review – and the best part: it’s open access!
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Writing for Follow The Money
In an effort to not become an “ivory tower academic“, I accepted the invitation from Follow The Money (a Dutch platform for investigative journalism) to start writing some brief articles. In these articles, I focus on issues related to management, accounting, behavior and ethics, and try to communicate research findings from the fields of management, accounting and business ethics to a wider audience.
Employee motivation as a driver of performance
(This article was also published via IE Insights)
All organizations want motivated employees, but how can management practices contribute to employee motivation? A recent study points to the importance of organizational values and training opportunities to facilitate intrinsic motivation of employees, and the role of performance measurement to enhance extrinsic motivation. Furthermore, the findings suggest that if organizations focus on motivating their employees, performance will follow.
New publication on public sector management
Last week, one of my research projects related to public sector management was published in the academic journal Public Money & Management.
Study on motivation and management published
Together with Paula van Veen-Dirks and Henk ter Bogt, I published this week a paper in the European Accounting Review. In the paper we study the relation between management control, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and performance. We use survey data from 105 departments from Dutch municipalities to test our hypotheses.
Why business education needs to integrate ethics and technics
[An edited and shortened version of this article was published in The Guardian.]
Although topics in business education such as accounting and finance may seem merely technical, they often bear major ethical implications. Business education should therefore aim to make students aware of the moral side of business decisions.
New publication in Accounting Education
Last week, I published a paper in Accounting Education about the presence (and absence) of ethical considerations in management accounting textbooks..
Drawing on the work of Alisdair MacIntyre, I argue that management accounting (MA) instruments such as performance measurement are not morally neutral, but instead bear moral implications. Therefore, I contend that MA students should be trained to take these moral implications into consideration alongside MA’s technical aspects. A content analysis is carried out to examine the integration of ethical considerations in top-ranked MA textbooks.
Talk at VRC Conference (NL) on Education
On 20 June 2018, I participated in the Dutch “Vereniging van Registercontrollers” (VRC) conference in The Hague. Continue reading
Video: Management in times of crisis
Based on my doctoral dissertation I recorded a 59 second video, summarizing the findings of one of the chapters.
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