About Us

Vision

We want to make a significant contribution to the advancement of theories and methods in work and organizational psychology as well as to the improvement of the quality of working life.
In close cooperation with scientific and industrial partners we develop solutions to current problems within the domain of organization, work and technology.
In our teaching we enable and motivate students to use knowledge from work and organizational psychology in their occupational fields.
We aim to design our own working conditions to use our academic freedom in research and teaching constructively and innovatively.

Research topics

Our basic interest is to understand how organizations and individuals deal with uncertainty. We use the perspective of uncertainty management which allows to systematically capture decisions on reducing, maintaining or increasing uncertainties and their effects on the interaction between people, organization, and technology. In our research projects we study these processes on the level of the organization (e.g. standardization of work processes), the group (e.g. coordination in high-risk teams), and the individual (e.g. career management in flexible employment relationships). 

Teaching

Teaching aims at relating basic and advanced knowledge in work and organizational psychology within an integrative framework of people, technology, and organization. All courses include practice-oriented teaching with project work and case studies.

Services

The services we offer are linked to our research to enable fast transfer of our results into business practice.