Phd On Motivation

5 maanden geleden


Eindhoven, Nederland TU Eindhoven Voltijd

**Job description**:
Are you eager to find out how we can motivate and enable employees to perform well in the renewable energy sector? Do you have a keen interest in understanding the psychological dynamics of employees when they transition from working from on-site mechanics to remote technology? Are you (motivated to become) an academic expert on employee attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors in changing work environments? Do you have a background in (social, work, organizational, cognitive) psychology, innovation management, consumer behavior, marketing, organization science, or any closely related social science study? And would you enjoy designing surveys, setting up online experiments, and analyzing the resultant data using statistical analysis techniques? Then we are looking for you to support our research team in the prestigious project HybridLabs: Accelerating Dutch innovations in offshore renewables through data-driven hybrid labs, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

**Context**
The urgency to transform the energy system in the Netherlands and in Europe is clear, but the targets set to achieve the energy transition are huge. For example, the worldwide installed capacity of offshore wind energy needs a 30-fold increase compared to the current situation. Achieving such targets - in overseeable timeframes - will only be possible if radical innovations are made in the way we develop and deploy offshore renewables: floating wind energy structures. The HybridLabs project aims to accelerate the deployment of offshore renewable technologies for both electricity and hydrogen production, hence addressing the energy transition needs whilst also strengthening the offshore food and ecological transitions. In a large consortium with partners including other universities (e.g., TU Delft, Wageningen University and Research, University of Twente, University of Groningen), research institutions (e.g., MARIN, Deltares, TNO), SMEs, governmental bodies (e.g., Rijkswaterstaat), and large businesses (e.g., Heerema Engineering Solutions, CrossWind, Boskalis, Bluewater, Huisman), teams of researchers will work on the infrastructure (e.g., testing facilities and simulators), designing and testing innovations (e.g., sensing, control, and design strategies for floating installation techniques), and implementation (e.g., legal, logistic, and employee and societal readiness). The current PhD position will contribute to this latter, implementation, chapter of HybridLabs.

A particularly pressing problem in the energy transition from fossil fuels to offshore renewables is the low availability of qualified personnel. Although some of these engineers will be trained in educational institutions, many others need to make the transition from fossil industry to renewables. This is not an easy transition, as new jobs require different skills, are typically located in other geographical areas, may have lower wages than fossil energy jobs, and employees may have a strong personal identification with their current organization or sector.

This PhD position contributes to the implementation chapter of HybridLabs and will focus on the overall mental transition of engineers with the aim to identify strategies that help fossil fuel workers to transition mentally to their new jobs in renewable energy. In addition, the project highlights the changed reality regarding the products on which they operate and examines the effects of differences in job design on employees’ work attitudes and behaviors. Finally, the project investigates how smart technology can help employees in their work routines.

We are looking for someone who wants to become a specialist in the technological-behavioral challenges in transitioning employees from the fossil fuel sector to the rapidly expanding renewable energy sector. Think about employee motivation, identification, attitudes in the context of changing jobs, and the importance of job design and reskilling. Also the fact that these employees will operate remotely located structures through state-of-the-art technologies, such as digital twins, will be part of the project. You have to be able to cooperate with many stakeholders (a multitude of companies, study participants, colleagues), and open doors that might remain closed for others. Hence, you are a strong networker who is willing to go out, talk to and interview managers and employees in the energy sector, to get an in-depth understanding of the situation and their considerations for employment decisions and job performance. Although qualitative research methodology is relevant the largest part of this PhD project will be quantitative in nature. So, for example, so you will also be employing and analyzing surveys to investigate attitudes and behaviors of employees in the fossil fuel as well as renewable energy sector to see to what extent they identify with their current organization and what factors would need to change for them to ensure a smooth



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