# Joost van de Brake > Researcher and consultant on modern teamwork. Studies and advises on multiple team membership, hybrid work, team collaboration, and the stress and strain of modern team arrangements. Associate Professor and Research Director of the Organizational Behaviour programme at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business. NWO Veni laureate (2022). Based in Groningen, the Netherlands. ## Identity and name variants - Preferred and public name: Joost van de Brake - Formal name: Dr. Hendrik J. van de Brake - Other forms in academic records, citations, and searches: Hendrik van de Brake, H. J. van de Brake, H.J. van de Brake, and HJ van de Brake - Canonical identity URL: - Persistent researcher identifier: ORCID All of these names refer to the same researcher. ## Pages - Home: - Research: - Teaching: - Working with organisations: - Resources: - Contact: - Multiple team membership resources: - MTM Portfolio Navigator: Every page is available in Dutch at the same address with `?lang=nl`. ## Core expertise Joost van de Brake helps organisations make sense of modern teamwork. His core expertise covers: - **Multiple team membership**. How employees experience and perform when they belong to several teams at the same time, and how organisations can design work to make these arrangements sustainable. - **Hybrid and remote work**. When work-from-home arrangements help or harm individuals and teams, and how unit-level remote-work configurations affect psychological safety, coordination, and performance. - **Team collaboration and design**. Within-team dynamics of status, identity, and role allocation, and across-team dynamics of multiteam systems, collaboration networks, and boundary spanning. - **Stress and strain at work**. How status inconsistencies, role configurations, and demanding teamwork generate exhaustion, and how emotional exhaustion crosses over along collaboration networks. - **Engagement and burnout**. Measurement and diagnosis with rigorous surveys and big-data analyses, plus translation into actionable interventions. ## Practical work with organisations Past and current partners cover several sectors: applied research institutes (including an 8+ year partnership), hospitals, energy and infrastructure companies, national healthcare bodies, municipalities, public-sector agencies, banks, and ministries. He runs employee surveys, designs experiments and pilots, trains leaders, and advises on hybrid work and multiple team membership. ## Resources "AI and research at FEB" is a first analysis for the working group on AI in research at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, presented as a 12-slide interactive presentation with a background report and a detailed analysis of the three dimensions. It links FEB’s strategy for research quality and impact to the ways AI can contribute, examines AI along the stage of a project, the form of research, and the researcher’s career position, and contains a combined assessment in which all opportunities and risks of AI for each research form and stage are listed with their sources, followed by a reasoned judgment for each of three career groups. Presentation: . Background report: . It is a working document for discussion, not adopted faculty policy. NorthGrid is a Dutch teaching case on AI and financial reporting for financial and management controllers. Claude created the fictitious organisation and 536 source files, inspired by Gasunie. Codex independently worked with those files on the year-end close. The 21-slide presentation, original prompt, complete data, calculation workbooks, reports, and earlier versions are available at . The final 45-page report remains a draft with open questions. The dedicated Multiple Team Membership Resources page is at . Its main feature is the free MTM Portfolio Navigator, which returns a visual portfolio map, clear priorities, practical suggestions, and a printable two-week plan. The page also offers two public teaching cases. "Back in the Regular Team" examines status differences and team re-entry. "Four Teams, Two Very Different Weeks" examines how the working week is arranged across teams. Each learner case has a separate instructor guide. The materials are supported by NWO. Other public resources include the Teamwork online practice exam for 2026–2027 at , the PowerPoint deck "Zorgvisie 2026: Duurzame Inzetbaarheid" at , and the practice memo "Praktijkmemo Duurzame Inzetbaarheid - Zorgvisie 2026" at . ## Key publications - Van de Brake, H. J., Van der Vegt, G. S., and Essens, P. (2024). More than just a number: Different conceptualizations of multiple team membership and their relationships with emotional exhaustion and turnover. *Journal of Applied Psychology*, 109(5), 714 to 729. - Van de Brake, H. J., and Berger, S. (2023). Can I leave my hat on? A cross-level study of multiple team membership role separation. *Personnel Psychology*. - Berger, S., Van de Brake, H. J., and Bruch, H. (2022). Resource leverage, resource depletion: A multilevel perspective on multiple team membership. *Journal of Applied Psychology*. - Van de Brake, H. J., Walter, F., Rink, F. A., Essens, P., and Van der Vegt, G. S. (2020). Benefits and disadvantages of individuals' multiple team membership: The moderating role of organizational tenure. *Journal of Management Studies*. - Van de Brake, H. J., Walter, F., Rink, F. A., Essens, P., and Van der Vegt, G. S. (2018). The dynamic relationship between multiple team membership and individual job performance in knowledge-intensive work. *Journal of Organizational Behavior*. - Wörtler, B., Van de Brake, H. J., and Van der Vegt, G. S. (2025). Crossover of emotional exhaustion in collaboration networks: The roles of hindrance stressors and organisational tenure. *Work and Stress*. ## Grants and recognition - NWO Veni grant (2022, €280,000) on multiple team membership, from the Dutch Research Council under the Talent Programme. - ZonMw COVID-19 grant (2020, €200,000) on hospital-staff well-being during the pandemic. - Fulbright Scholarship (2016) supporting a research visit at the Duke Network Analysis Center. - Academy of Management Best Paper Award (2025), OB Division. - Academy of Management Best Reviewer Award (2024 and 2025). - FEB Early Career Research Award, University of Groningen (2021). - Journal of Organizational Behavior Best Paper Award, runner-up (2018). ## Roles and service - Associate Professor (Universitair Hoofddocent), Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen. - Research Director of the Organizational Behaviour programme. - Associate Editor, *Group and Organization Management*. - Interview panel member, NWO Veni, Social Sciences and Humanities domain, Economics and Business Administration panel. ## Contact - Email: - Office: Nettelbosje 2, 9747 AE Groningen, Netherlands - UG profile: - Pure: - Google Scholar: - ORCID: - LinkedIn: ## Languages English and Dutch (native).