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Item Spatial System Dynamics: Building an Operational Crowd Management Model(2025-07-17)Crowd events present unique and dynamic management challenges that demand real-time and operational support tools. This research investigates the feasibility of using spatial system dynamics (SD) to build an operational and real-time model for crowd management. A spatial SD model was developed and tested for the Vierdaagsefeesten (4DF) in the Netherlands by translating crowd management theory to SD and adding an element of spatial complexity. The model simulated key behaviour both at the macroscopic level of an event, and within parts of the event. Performance testing with the model explored trade-offs between spatial, temporal, and operational complexity. Although the model itself remains a proof of concept, the work stands as a practical guide for building integrative, operational, and real-time models using spatial SD.Item Financial Flexibility at Work: The Impact of Earned Wage Access on Job Satisfaction and Trust via Financial Well-Being(2026-01-12)Financial stress remains a concern for a substantial share of Dutch employees, prompting organizations to explore HR practices that support workers’ financial well-being (FWB). Earned Wage Access (EWA) allows employees to access part of their earned wages before payday and has been linked to reduced financial pressure and improved work outcomes in U.S. studies. Drawing on Social Exchange Theory (SET) and Perceived Organizational Support (POS), this study examines how EWA relates to employees’ FWB, job satisfaction (JS), and trust in their employer (TR) in the Netherlands, and whether FWB mediates these relationships. A cross-sectional survey of 115 users of the CashOut application showed that EWA is positively associated with JS and TR, and that FWB is positively related to both outcomes. However, EWA does not significantly predict FWB, and no mediation effects were found. Overall, the findings indicate that EWA functions more as a relational signal of employer support than as a financial tool. This perspective can help organizations position EWA within supportive HR strategies and provides a foundation for future research in European labor markets.Item Learning from the Past: How Prior Merger Experiences Shape Cultural Integration in Subsequent M&As(2026-02-02)This study investigates how prior merger and acquisition (M&A) experiences shape cultural integration in subsequent transactions. While cultural misalignment is a primary cause of M&A failure, existing literature often overlooks how firms learn from these challenges across sequential events. Utilising a qualitative single-case study of a Dutch personal injury law firm, this thesis explores two sequential events: an initial turbulent merger in 2016 (M&A 1) and a management buy-out combined with an acquisition in 2025 (M&A 2). The study employs the Dynamic Capabilities Framework (Sensing, Seizing, Transforming) to analyse the organisational learning process. Findings reveal that the firm developed a Cultural Integration Dynamic Capability by engaging in double-loop learning, critically reflecting on past failures. Key results show that the organisation shifted from a rigid, coercive assimilation approach to a proactive strategy focused on operational autonomy (carving out HR and IT), employee-centric communication, and strategic non-harmonisation of employment terms. The research concludes that hard-won tacit knowledge from past failures can be transformed into institutionalised routines.Item How Employees Justify Quiet Quitting A Qualitative Analysis of Antiwork Narratives on Workplace Disengagement(2026-03-03)Quiet Quitting has established itself in public and scholarly debate for reduced work engagement, but its exact definition and understanding remain unclear. It is often perceived when workers are unhappy with their job but cannot afford to actually quit. This thesis investigates how Quiet Quitters themselves justify and interpret their behaviour by analysing authentic, naturally occurring data from the r/antiwork community on Reddit. A qualitative content analysis was performed on 176 comments from 22 Quiet Quitting related posts, comparing the findings to a nomological network that was developed based on prior research. The central aspect of Quiet Quitting is contractual compliance. The fulfilment of formal tasks is used as moral defence against criticism, since the contract establishes the exact balance of labour and wage. Individuals are often pushed towards this due to past frustrations in the workplace, opting to for a better work-life balance when their efforts go unnoticed. R/antiwork also strongly prefers ‘act your wage’ as a label for their behaviour. Quiet Quitting is perceived as an attempt to demonize the withdrawal of discretionary efforts, which organisations have used to increase profits but refusing to share it with those that produce it.Item The role of participants’ adoption of intervention components in intervention effectiveness; A quantitative study of a multicomponent intervention(2026-03-23)This study examines whether the extent to which participants adopt the components of a multicomponent health intervention influences its effectiveness. Although interventions are often evaluated based on overall outcomes, less attention is given to differences in how participants actually apply intervention components in daily life. This study therefore positions adoption as a central explanatory construct and examines coping capacity as a moderator in this relationship. Using a longitudinal, non-experimental design, secondary survey data were collected at baseline and follow-up among 85 participants of Company X’s intervention. Analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between adoption of seven intervention components and stress level, physical and mental complaints, and well-being, while controlling for demographic variables. The results show that stronger adoption of the AC-process and AT components is associated with greater reductions in physical and mental complaints. However, adoption did not significantly predict stress level or well-being. Coping capacity did not moderate the relationship between adoption and the outcome variables. These findings suggest that adoption plays a selective and component-specific role in intervention effectiveness.
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