Amber Kersten

Amber Kersten is an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University's Department of Human Resource Studies within the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on strategic human resource management practices for vulnerable worker inclusion, neurodiversity approaches, and organizational policy development.

Her work emphasizes:

• Contextual HRM decision-making
• Dynamics of inclusive employer behavior
• Strengths-based interventions for neurodivergent employees
• Customizable HR bundles for diverse organizational sizes

Recent publications analyze:

• HRM combinations for hiring vulnerable groups (2024 WORK-A JOURNAL study)
• Strengths utilization in neurodivergent inclusion (2024 Human Resource Management article)
• Employer policy adoption dynamics (2024 working paper)

She contributes to SDG 8 (Decent Work) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) through practical frameworks like the Dynamic Inclusive Workplace Adoption Model.

Active in both academic and professional settings, she has delivered invited talks on inclusive employment (2024-2025) and supervises Master's theses in Performance Management and Seminar HRS courses.