


I received useful feedback from him on my thesis. Further thanks to Thomas who supported me and cheered me up when it was necessary. Special thanks to my parents who always have been there for me and supported me in everything I did. Thirdly I would like to thank family and friends who have been supportive during my master thesis. I would also like to thank everybody at MST who cooperated with the research through interviews or conversations. Secondly I want to thank my supervisor at Medisch Spectrum Twente, Gerrit van der Kolk, for giving me the opportunity to practice the research at MST and by providing information in various ways. I have experienced the cooperation as pleasant and motivating. Her enthusiasm and knowledge on the subject was an inspiration for me to look further in e-hrm. She was always very enthusiastic and supportive. I especially want to thank Tanya Bondarouk for her effort in this research. First I would like to thank my academic supervisors Tanya Bondarouk and Huub Ruël. I would like to take the opportunity to thank them for their effort. More people are involved in the research and this report and I could not have done it without them. With the master thesis I feel that the knowledge I gathered during my study is put into practice. Looking back at the research I learned a lot about human resource management in practice and the way organizations work. I was pleased to see it was possible to do my research within the healthcare organization MST. During the last summer I noticed the implementation of e-hrm and the interesting behaviour of people in the organization. The context is a healthcare organization in which I worked for several summers. With this research more insights are gathered on e-hrm and knowledge is expanded. This makes it an interesting combination. With e-hrm I was able to combine the human aspect with the growing influence of information technology. I choose the master track Human Recourse Management because the behaviour of people in organizations always interested me. It is the finishing touch on the study business administration I did at the University of Twente in Enschede. van der Kolk HR Policy Advisorģ PREFACE This report is the result of research on the subject e-hrm. 1 THE ENACTMENT OF E-HRM IN A HEALTHCARE CONTEXT Results of a qualitative study at Medisch Spectrum Twente M.M.J Engbersen University of Twente School of Management and Governance Business Administration, Human Resource Management s May 2010 Supervisors: Dr.
