We are looking for excellent enthusiastic scholars to join the High-tech Business and Entrepreneurship (HBE) department at the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences. The HBE department is a growing research group that holds a leading position at the interfaces of business, technology and the social sciences. We conduct cross-disciplinary business research, supporting organizations in innovative management and decision-making.

We are looking for talents with the background and/or interests in an interdisciplinary field of Human Resource Management and Artificial Intelligence /data analytics. We perform ground-breaking research combining various themes such as talent management, smart-industry, innovation management, technology based entrepreneurship, purchasing and supply management, corporate finance, HRM, and leadership. We challenge conventional scholarly wisdom!

We invite a successful candidate to join our forward-thinking team-based environment to expand the borders of your home subject area and develop cross-disciplinary expertise. Join our team and strive to have a significant and balanced impact on science and society.

Responsibilities

You contribute to our academic profile, and to healthy, safe and friendly work climate. You will

• carry out results-oriented business research, with a genuine interest in operating at crossroads of different fields;
• improve your home-based specific expertise and develop an interdisciplinary research line;
• (co-)teach and/or coordinate courses in our Bachelor and Master programs of (International) Business Administration, Industrial Engineering & Management, and Business & IT;
• guide students from these programs in their graduation assignments;
• develop expertise in novel data driven research methods and work jointly with the BMS lab (a lab that develops expertise in using industrial and behavioural research datasets for research);
• co-supervise PhD students.

• show vision and results-oriented drive (seeing opportunities and possibilities, showing ambition);
• have knowledge and expertise in general and/or specific domains of HRM and AI/ People Analytics;
• hold a PhD degree in a relevant background (HRM, OB, Sociology of Work, AI-related, People Analytics), and have experience in research, which is apparent from various professional communications, and other academic activities;
• strive to make an impact in education and science;
• are active in academic and professional networks;
• possess a (equivalent of) University Teaching Qualification certificate, or be willing to acquire this, and have a real passion for, and the ambition to become a creative and effective teacher;
• want to work for 0,8 - 1,0 FTE.

We offer 1-year appointment that, when positively evaluated, will lead to a permanent appointment. The starting salary, depending on your experience, ranges between € 3.746 to € 6.317 gross per month (in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities), based on the job profile Assistant or Associate Professor. In addition, the employment conditions include 8% holiday allowance, 8.3% end-of-year, proven pension scheme, sabbatical leave, professional and personal development programs, etc.

The HBE-department is one of four departments at the faculty. It is essentially an ambitious and steadily growing high-tech business school that merges business and entrepreneurship with tech innovation and social sciences to help companies and business people impact society. Research covers a broad spectrum of topics, such as the use of advanced mathematics to optimize logistics operations, boosting the use of Artificial Intelligence in the industry, design of inter-organizational information systems, training purchasing professionals, etc. For more information on these departments, see: https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/organization/departments-institutes/#department-clusters