Anna Bos-Nehles is Associate Professor in the field of Human Resource Management and Programme director of the Business Administration programmes at the University of Twente. Her main research interest lies in the role of line managers in the implementation of HRM innovations and the implementation of people-based innovations, such as innovative employee behaviours. She focuses on how line managers implement HR policies and practices at the operational level, in the way they shape the innovative behaviour of employees in all areas of the organisation and how they use digital innovations to manage their subordinates. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed international outlets such as International Journal of Management Reviews, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Personnel Review.
She has performed research projects in a variety of organizations, such as Shell, Stork Fokker, Thales, Strukton Worksphere, Plegt-Vos, Benchmark Electronics, The Netherlands Fire Services, Asito, and several healthcare organizations.
Anna has a passion for educational innovations, such as the Co-creation of a 360 Degree Peer Review Process and Challenge-Based Learning. She has implemented these innovations in her courses at the University of Twente and has helped her colleagues to do the same. Since 2022, Anna is Programme director of the BSc programme International Business Administration and the MSc programme Business Administration.
Expertise
Social Sciences
- Managers
- Employees
- Research
- Organizations
- Ability
Psychology
- Abilities
- Motivation
- Resources
Organisations
- The role of Line Managers in HRM Implementation
- The Implementation of People-Based Innovations
- Innovative Work Behaviour
- Ability-Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) Framework
Publications
2024
2023
2022
Research profiles
- MSc course HRM & Innovation (in BA programme)
- BSc module Technology, Organisation & People (in IBA programme)
- Minor Industry 4.0 with a Human Touch
- Supervision of Master students (BA)
- Supervision of Bachelor students (IBA)
Affiliated study programs
Courses academic year 2024/2025
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2023/2024
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201500087 - HRM and Innovation
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 202000551 - Technology, Organisation & People (TOP)
- 202000576 - Research Proposal Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202000579 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202000875 - M11-M12 BSc Thesis GZW
- 202001608 - Masterthesis Master Public Management
- 202100130 - GP I
- 202100161 - Graduation Project Part II
BMS Innovation Project Optimal Feedback for Students (finished in 2021)
BMS Innovation Project UTeaching Cases: Teaching U Industry 4.0 (finished in 2021)
SUTQ Project about Co-Creation of 360 Degree Peer Feedback Process (graduated in 2022)
4TU T&L Fellow of BMS Faculty about Self-Regulated Feedback Mechanisms in Challenge-Based Learning Projects (finished in 2023)
Finished projects
Address

University of Twente
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Netherlands
University of Twente
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P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands