PhD defence I. (Indy) Wijngaards

The popularity of questionnaires to identify worker well-being and its drivers is steadily increasing worldwide. And for good reasons. In an era of increasing digitalization, robotization and globalization, data from surveys can help identify workplace problems and evaluate interventions to promote worker well-being. A prerequisite for an effective survey - and thus genuinely useful data - is a thorough measurement of the concept of worker well-being itself. But what does a thorough measurement look like? What challenges do researchers in science and practice encounter? What is the best way to deal with these challenges? Indy Wijngaards examined these questions in his dissertation titled "Measuring Worker Well-Being: An evaluation of closed and open-ended survey questions."

In his dissertation, he offers tools for measuring worker well-being in organizations in a thorough and practical way. Wijngaards conducted a literature study and studied the well-being of employees working in healthcare, financial services and the transport sector, among others. 

The public defence will take place at the Senate Hall, 1st floor Erasmus Building, location campus Woudestein. The ceremony will begin exactly at 15.30 PM. In light of the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.