Yvette Baggen

Yvette Baggen works from October 2013 onwards at the Education and Competence Group of Wageningen University as a PhD candidate.

Yvette studied Educational Sciences at Utrecht University. During her studies, her interest for human resource development grew. Yvette’s master thesis focused on the growing importance of employability and the role of the psychological contract within organizations. Furthermore, she participated in an honours programme Sustainable Entrepreneurship, and worked as a student assistant for the Academic Elementary Teacher Training College and the bachelor Educational Sciences. After her graduation in 2012, she worked at ICLON, Leiden University, for one year as an educational advisor and trainer. Her main role was to advise teachers and management teams within higher education institutions about curriculum related topics, such as assessment, blended learning, and student engagement.

Her main research interest is the importance of human capital for organizational learning and innovation. In her research project, Yvette will have a closer look at the relationships between opportunity competence of employees (on an individual and group level), organizational learning (on an individual, group and organizational level) and the innovative performance of organizations.