Steen, Dr. T.P.S. (Trui)

Position:
  • Assistant professor
Expertise:
  • Civil service systems, public sector reform, personnel management, public organizations, public service motivation, senior civil service, intergovernmental relations.


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 3757
E-Mail: tsteen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit Campus Den Haag, Instituut Bestuurskunde
Office Address: Pieter de la Court gebouw
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden
Room number 5A08

Trui Steen (1971) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

She (co-)authored several articles and book chapters on civil service systems and reforms, senior civil service, public service motivation, and intergovernmental relations. In 2001 she obtained her PhD on personnel management reform in local government in Flanders, at the KULeuven (Belgium). Earlier, she studied commercial engineering (KULeuven) and sociology (UGhent). Trui Steen worked as a research coordinator at the Public Management Institute, KULeuven, and Steunpunt Bestuurlijke Organisatie Vlaanderen.   

She teaches courses on public management and HRM in the public sector for master students at Leiden University's Institute of Public Administration. Trui Steen has held a number of executive functions at the Institute of Public Administration, including membership of the Departmental Board, chair of the Institute Council, educational director, membership of the Education Advisory Committee, and academic coordinator of the European Master in Public Administration partnership. In recent years, Trui Steen has coordinated several research projects, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vernieuwing Rijksdienst, Programma Andere Overheid, and Vlabest, and has received research funding from NWO, Gratama-Stichting and LUF.  

Trui Steen has participated in several international research networks. She is a member of the advisory committee of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) study group on public personnel policies. She has been a guest lecturer at different academic institutes in the Netherlands and Belgium and is a senior member of the Netherlands Institute of Governance. She regularly presents at international conferences and professional meetings, and has developed and organized seminars and executive training programs for civil servants. Trui Steen is a member of the editorial board of the journals ‘Bestuurskunde’, ‘VTOM’, and ‘Impuls”. From 2002 to 2007, she acted as vice president of the ‘Hoge Raad voor Binnenlands Bestuur Vlaanderen’.

Research projects

Trui Steen is currently coordinating the NWO VIDI-research “Double Bind”. This study concerns how public service professionals cope with contrasting demands from organizational and social contexts. The research addresses the lack of knowledge on how PSM and professionalism are actually put in practice, the potential reverse effects of these, and the influence of organizations on professional and public service identity. The empirical research focuses on veterinarian-inspectors working in food safety services. Next to theoretical advances based on empirical research, the project wants to offer practitioners insight into the potential gains and risks involved in promoting PSM, and provide input for outlining Human Resource Management-strategies.  

Trui Steen is also coordinating the research project “Motivated for Active Citizenship”, funded by Aspasia NWO. The project addresses the motivation of citizens to engage in coproduction of public services as a specific forms of civic engagement. The project links research on public service motivation with the topical issue of a changing roles and responsibilities of government and citizens. Case studies from the Netherlands are addressed, and close collaboration with expert scholars from KULeuven, Belgium, and Aarhus University, Denmark, is set up in order to provide the opportunity for international comparison.

Ancillary positions

Fellow KULeuven, Public Management Institute

 
Last Modified: 07-02-2012