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xvi About the Contributors
safety performance, and financial performance; the concept of safety role breadth; and relationships
between moral development, perspective-taking, and transformational leadership
Prof. Dr Jaap J. van Muijen, LTP, Jozef Israelskade 46, NL-1072 SB Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
Jaap van Muijen is senior consultant and member of the board at LTP (a middle-large con-
sultancy firm in the Netherlands) and Lecturer at the Institute for Business Education, Castle
Zeist. He is an active researcher and consultant in the fields of organizational culture, leader-
ship, commitment and motivation, team development, group performance, and, Human Resource
Management. He is a member of the international research group FOCUS. This group consists
of researchers from twelve countries and the research topic concerns the influence of national
context on organizational culture and management. He received his Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam in 1994. He published several articles and books about organizational culture, leader-
ship, Human Resource Management and psychological contract.
Dr Harrie F. J.M. van Tuijl, Department of Technology and Work, Faculty of Technology Man-
agement, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The
Netherlands.
Harrie van Tuijl has a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Nijmegen University, The
Netherlands. He is an Associate professor in personnel management at Eindhoven University
of Technology, Faculty of Technology Management, Department of Technology and Work. Dur-
ing the past decade he has been involved in a number of applied research projects, both in profit
and in not for profit organizations, on the design and implementation of feedback and goal setting
systems, based on the ProMES method. Implementing such productivity enhancement systems
often requires a long term involvement of the researcher in the organization concerned, because
support has to be given in, among others, the areas of training and reward systems.
His main research interests are: productivity enhancement, organizational learning, group
problem solving strategies, self managing teams, self-regulation, consistency between control
systems. He has published several articles and book chapters on these topics.
Helma Verhagen, Fuji Photo Film B.V., Oudenstaart 1, P.O. box 90156, NL-5000 LJ Tilburg, The
Netherlands.
Helma Verhagen is senior staff officer Human Development within the department for personnel
and environmental affairs at Fuji Photo Film b.v. in Tilburg (The Netherlands). In this function
she is responsible for activities and policy on the area of management development and com-
munication. Before this she was senior consultant at the management consultancy firm SHL in
the Netherlands, specializing in assessment and development projects within organizations. She
studied Work and Organizational Psychology at the Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (KUB) and
graduated in Personnel Psychology.
Brigitte Winkler, A47 Consulting, Corporate Development and Management Diagnostic,
Agnesstrasse 47, D-80798 M¨unchen, Germany.
Brigitte Winkler is an international consultant for organizational development and management
diagnostic in Munich, Germany. She studied psychology at the Technical University of Berlin and
at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit¨at in Munich and subsequently worked at HypoVereinsbank
in various Human Resources Management positions in Germany and the United Kingdom. In
1998 she was promoted to Director of Human Resources Development, with responsibility for
Management Diagnostic and Management Development for the bank in Germany and its branches
and subsidiaries abroad. In this senior management function she was actively involved in the
merger between Hypo-Bank and Vereinsbank and was responsible for designing and implementing
new procedures and tools for the selection and development of managers. At the end of 1999,
together with two business partners, she set up her own consultancy firm-A47 consulting, corporate
development and management diagnostic in Munich.
One of her main fields of interest is the practical application of theory. She teaches students of
Psychology how to apply this in a professional setting and regularly teaches industrial and organi-
zational psychology at the Justus von Liebig University of Giessen, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universit¨at in Munich and at the Technical University in Munich. She is a certified supervisor and
has post-graduate qualifications in organisational development and behaviour therapy. Since 1993
she has been a member of the Academy of Management.