Charissa Freese

Charissa Freese

prof.dr.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9038-2193

  • Prof. Cobbenhagenlaan 225, Simon Building, room S 502

    5037 DB Tilburg

    Netherlands

1993 …2025

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Research interests

Charissa Freese is an expert on new employment relationships. She studies the contribution of HRM to inclusive labor markets. Her research contributes to the social issue of how employers, employees and institutions can help create optimal labor market participation. As the former chair of the board of the People Management Center, she collaborated closely with employers and institutions by giving workshops, lectures and executive education. Themes include HRM and robots on the work floor, inclusive HRM, creating employment security for the flexible workforce and people with reduced work capacity, the psychological contract and organizational change management. 

She supervises Ph.D. candidates and master students. She is vice-dean and core lecturer HRM at TIAS and contributes to several executive training programs. She worked as a project leader on diverse projects for external partners, like strategic workforce planning in Dutch Universities and I-deals in health care, long term unemployed, the inclusion of people with disabilities and robotics on the workfloor. She was involved in the Let's Connect project as an academic advisor and researcher at Brainport Development. She wrote a management book on labor market shortages for Stichting Management Studies, a WRR working paper on work intensification and a Rathenau report on Robots at the workplace.

Career

Education

19 October 2007 Ph.D. at Tilburg University. "Organizational change and the dynamics of psychological contracts: A longitudinal Study". Promotor: Prof. Dr. M.J.D. Schalk.

June 1994. Master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Tilburg University

PhD supervision

Copromotor of Sjoerd van de Heuvel: The influence of the psychological contract on attitude towards change. Ph.D. thesis Tilburg University, November 2, 2012. Sjoerd van den Heuvel was an external PhD. student employed at Capgemini.

Co-promotor of Sumaiya Syed: Antecedents and outcomes of work-interference with family life: A cross-national study in the banking sector in Pakistan and in the Netherlands. Ph.D. thesis Tilburg University, April 22, 2013. Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur.

Co-promotor of Sjoerd van der Smissen (external Ph.D.): "Contemporary Psychological Contracts. "How organizational changeand generational differences affect employer employee relationships?, 14 December 2015.

Co-promotor of Ronald Lievens:"Enhancing Online Labour Market Intermediation: Career Portfolio", 11 September 2015. 

Promotor of Sjanne Marie van den Groenendaal: "A career perspective on solo self-employment", 15 juni 2021

Promotor of Merel Feenstra-Verschure: "Locked at the job: examining antecedents, consequences and its process",  30 september 2022.

Member of the doctoral commission of Elise Marescaux (KU Leuven) on her thesis:"The impact of HR differentiation on employees", defended on 25 November 2013.

Member of the doctoral commission of Melanie de Ruiter (Nijenrode), on her thesis: "Beyond repair? The role of supervisory leadership in the context of psychological contract breach" on 20 January 2017 at Tilburg University.

Member of the doctoral commitee of Rebecca Bogaers: "Stigma as a barrier to sustainable employment and well-being of workers with health issues and illnesses", 23 juni 2023.

Current Ph.D. candidates:

Kornélia Anna Kerti, Tilburg University

Jason Jie, Deloitte

Koen van den Berk, Deloitte

Marieke Sarton, Vluchtelingenwerk

Sabine Hartman

Renate Bosman

Current courses

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External positions

Member of Executive Board (Avans Hogeschool)

1 Apr 2025 → 31 Mar 2029

Board member (Driessen Foundation)

16 Dec 2024 → …

Member Supervisory Board (NXP Semiconductors NL B.V.)

1 Sept 2024 → 1 Sept 2028

Vice dean (TIAS School for Business & Society)

15 Sept 2022 → 31 Mar 2025

Special Professor (North-West University)

1 Jul 2022 → 1 Jul 2028

Member Supervisory board (Het Pon/ Telos)

1 Jul 2021 → 1 Jul 2025

Keywords

  • Inclusive HRM
  • Organizational Change
  • Psychological Contract
  • Employment relations
  • Labor market participation
  • Future of work

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  3. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  4. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  5. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  6. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  7. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  8. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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