Evangelia Demerouti
Prof. Dr. Evangelia Demerouti, born in 1970, studied psychology at the University of Crete (Greece). After graduating (cum laude), she received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Office to work on her PhD. She obtained her PhD (cum laude, 1999) on the Job Demands-Resources burnout model from the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany). In September 2009 she was appointed as full-time professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on the processes enabling performance, including the effects of job characteristics, decision making, well-being, work-life balance and job crafting. She has over 200 publications and is associate editor of two journals.
Improving Both Performance and Well-Being Through Participative Methods of Performance Management: When and Why Does It Work?
The research project will examine whether that individual job crafting contributes to explain the performance-promoting aspect of management-techniques (ProMES) and to enhance employees’ innovative behavior and resources as well as their health and well-being. These assumptions will be tested using existing diary data and a new ProMES intervention. During the ProMES intervention, daily job crafting-behavior of employees will be measured using innovative IT instruments (i.e. smartphone app to track job crafting behavior). The goal is to expand the IT instrument for broader implementation of ProMES and job crafting in organizations. Supporting innovations with IT tools that provide feedback to employees about their performance and job crafting can enhance innovativeness of organizations and individuals.