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Job - PhD Candidate in Leadership Development 2020, Radboud University, Netherlands

Publish Date: Aug 20, 2020

Deadline: Aug 30, 2020

PhD Candidate in Leadership Development 

  • 40 hours per week
  • Maximum gross monthly salary: € 3,061
  • Nijmegen School of Management
  • Required background: Research University Degree
  • Duration of the contract: 4 years
  • Application deadline: 30 August 2020

We are looking for

The Strategic HRM Chair Group at the Nijmegen School of Management invites applications for a PhD position. We are looking for an enthusiastic and result-driven PhD candidate, who is looking forward to an interdisciplinary study with societal relevance. The position is part of the NWO-funded LEADER (LEAdership DEvelopment in Road transport) project, and will be supervised by Prof. Beatrice van der Heijden, Dr Jeroen de Jong, and Dr Ellen Rusman (Open Universiteit). 


The LEADER project is funded by NWO's Human Capital: Future of Work programme. The aims of this project are to study: a) how leadership of truck drivers can be optimised to improve sustainable employability; b) the critical success factors for developing leaders in a context of learning communities within a road transport environment; and c) how learning communities can be designed and configured to support effective, adaptive and innovative collaboration networks that effect learning and working processes of leaders in road transport. As a PhD candidate you will specifically study the needs and practices of leaders in road transport, co-develop tools for learning communities in support of on-the-job leadership development, and conduct a quasi-experiment on the effectiveness of the learning communities. The project will integrate different fields of research, including leadership and leadership development, sustainable employability, learning networks, and mobile and seamless learning design of online learning tools. Depending on the phase of the research project, your job will require you to work on location at the Open Universiteit in Heerlen and at the Sectorinstituut Transport & Logistiek (STL) in Gouda.

Your task will be to design empirical studies, to collaborate with various stakeholders (e.g. leaders in the transport sector, ICT designers, educational designers), to co-design services for the online learning community, to collect data, conduct research analyses, to write scientific articles, and to complete a PhD thesis in time. You will collaborate with an inter-disciplinary team of researchers, and will present at national and international conferences and workshops, and also participate in other scholarly and valorisation activities.

 

We ask

 

  • A Master's degree in Business Administration, Occupational Psychology, Industrial Engineering & Management, or in a related field in the social sciences.
  • Academic excellence, as demonstrated by grade transcripts and CV.
  • A solid understanding of both quantitative and qualitative research methods and design-based research.
  • Excellent command of written and spoken Dutch and English and excellent communication skills.
  • The ability to work both independently and as a team player.
  • Affinity with software design and development.
  • A proactive, result-driven and flexible working attitude.
  • The ability to finish your PhD thesis in time, which requires strong skills in project management, creativity, proactive behaviour, resilience, and excellent academic writing skills.

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PhD

Eligible Countries

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Host Countries

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