Leadership Talk by Brigitte Kroon
HRM in context: Making sense of HR decision making
- Starts:13:00, 27 May 2025
- Ends:13:45, 27 May 2025
- Location:Online
- Contact:Lina Daouk-Öyry (lina.daouk-oyry@bi.no)
Brigitte Kroon will speak about how HR decision making is best understood as embedded in a complex system of societal, institutional, and economic factors that interplay at multiple levels (national, sectoral, regional, organizational), and engage many actors. Diverging interests between stakeholders and interests cause tensions at the organization level, where there is no obvious best decision, leaving leeway to HR decision makers to respond in various ways. She will highlight research on sectors and businesses where these tensions around HR decisions are visible, and lead to different outcomes for employees – anything between fair work and exploitation. These insights provide implications for HRM research, as well as for HR decision makers and employees.
What is Leadership Talks?
Leadership Talks is a series of seminars about topics related to leadership, change and sustainability, project management and organizational psychology, hosted by the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at BI Norwegian Business School.
Associate Professor Brigitte Kroon
Brigitte Kroon is an expert on human resource management and fair work. Trained as a work and organizational psychologist with 10 years of experience in HRM and business consulting, she joined Tilburg University in 2003. In her research she studies the contribution of human resource management to both the effectiveness of organizations and the wellbeing of employees. Her research contributes to contextualizing insights from strategic human resource management research to less-researched business contexts including SME's, cooperatives, flexible (agency) work, and sectors employing historically disadvantaged groups in low waged work (e.g. migrants, women). In her research she collaborates with local and international organizations, employer- and employee associations. She is convinced that all organizations and workers can benefit more from human resource management, when time is spent on understanding the causes of people-related issues in their specific contexts, in combination with a better understanding of available research evidence. She actively shares her knowledge to benefit society by participating in advisory boards and committees (European Labor Authority, Dutch Pension Fund Federation) and management (as Head of the Department Human Resource Studies). She enjoys teaching students (education) and practitioners (executive education, management) how using research insights can benefit people related decision-making in organizations.
