The Organization Development and Consulting section has a systemic-constructivist point of view and is based on the values of humanistic and positive psychology. The systemic-constructivist perspective takes the basic inner logic of systems into account and points out that truth is always negotiation. The values of humanistic and positive psychology result in humane practices, the details of which are to be defined. At present, the section focuses on the following topics:

• Psychological aspects of people in organizations with a high degree of self-organization
• Knowledge transfer for practice in the area of the psychology of agility  
• Approaches to redesigning organizations (new work) and action orientations for practice with a focus on collaboration, innovation, communication, and conflict management  
• Leadership principles and leadership development with a focus on self-leadership
• Personality development in the new worlds of work (New Work, VUCA, Industry 4.0)
• New teaching and learning formats (Education 4.0)

In our study programme we recognize our students as adults who have in part extensive experience and competencies and who are seeking in their studies to acquire further knowledge and abilities. Specific learning settings stimulate autonomous thinking and in-depth examination of the diverse contents. We view students as autonomous customers but also present them with learning  challenges, feedback, and assignments. Here we value mutual critical analysis.

Graduates of our study programme are able to analyse complex situations and to relativize them according to the particular context. In this way, they are specialists in the fuzzy and the provisional.

• Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie I & II [Work and organizational psychology I & II]
• BWL & VWL [Business and economics]
• Organisations- und Managementwissenschaft [Organizational and management science]
• Individuum, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft [Individual, economy, society]
• Führungsentwicklung und Organisationskultur [Leadership development and organizational culture]
• Organisationsberatung [Organizational consulting]
• Veränderungsprozesse [Change processes]
• Soziale Architekturen, Designs und Implementierungen [Social architectures, designs, and implementations]

Holistic learning is closely connected with personal experience. Notwithstanding the age of digitalization and virtualization, not every context and every experience can be simulated. We therefore offer our students a variety of opportunities to experience themselves in other contexts. We have developed various formats—excursions, workshops, and learning journeys—that allow explorations in topic areas in work and organizational psychology as well as in other, complementary disciplines.

Together with partner organizations at different locations we provide learning architectures and designs for the “next society”. These include learning journeys to Israel and India, excursions to Berlin, and a variety of other opportunities in Switzerland and abroad.