Bernhard Wilpert

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Bernhard Wilpert (born March 1, 1936 in Breslau ; † August 20, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German psychologist .

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As the son of the economist Johannes Wilpert and his wife Emma Breitkopf, he grew up in southern Germany. He studied psychology, sociology and cultural anthropology in Tübingen, Eugene and Bonn. In Tübingen he won in 1965 the doctorate to the Dr. phil. From 1965 to 1967 he worked as an assistant at the German Development Service . From 1968 he worked at the German Development Institute in Berlin as a research assistant, where he also held lectures.

From 1968 to 1977 he held various positions at the Berlin Science Center and at the International Institute for Management and Administration in Berlin. From 1978 to 1980 he taught psychology at the University of Education in Berlin . From 1980 he carried out the same function at the TU Berlin . From 2001 to 2002 he was Vice President of the TU Berlin. In 2003 he went into retirement .

The main focus of his work concerned the areas of the psychology of work and organization in companies. He also dealt with questions of the psychology of safety in large plants such as nuclear reactors. This work has been honored and recognized internationally, especially in Europe.

He was married to Czarina Huerta since 1964 and the couple had two children.

Bernhard Wilpert died of leukemia on August 20, 2007 at the age of 71. The funeral took place on August 31, 2007 in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend .

Fonts

  • Aid to Developing Countries , 1961
  • Management in German companies , Berlin 1977
  • Work Organization Research: American and European Perspectives with Anant R. Negandhi, Kent (Ohio) 1978
  • Claim and reality of co-determination with Jörg Rayley, 1983
  • Labor Relations Manual. Germany - Austria - Switzerland , with Günter Endruweit , Eduard Gaugler and Wolfgang H. Staehle , Berlin 1985
  • German-Chinese joint ventures. Economy - Law - Culture , with Volker Trommsdorff, Klaus Jakubowski, and Sophia Scharpf, 1994
  • Organizational Decision-Making under Different Economic and Political Conditions with PJD Drenth and Paul L. Koopman, Amsterdam 1996
  • After the Event: From Accident to Organizational Learning with Andrew Hale and Matthias Freitag, 1997
  • Nuclear Safety: A Human Factors Perspective, edited by J. Misumi, 1998
  • Management & Cultural Values: The Indigenization of Organizations in Asia with Henry S. Kao and Durganand Sinha as editors, Thousand Oaks, California, 1999
  • Management and Cultural Values: The Indigenization of Organizations in Asia with Henry S. Kao and Durganand Sinha, New Delhi 1999
  • Safety Culture in Nuclear Power Operations , CRC, October 15, 2001, ISBN 0415246490
  • Safety culture. Concepts and analysis methods with Torsten Büttner and Babette Fahlbruch, 2003
  • Emerging Demands for the Safety of Nuclear Power Operations: Challenge and Response , CRC, July 15, 2004, with Naosuke Itoigawa and Babette Fahlbruch, 2004

Memberships, offices and awards

  • 1987 to 1988: Program Advisory Board at the Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur la Technologie, le Travail et les Modes de Vie
  • 1990: Head of the System Security Research Center at the Institute for Psychology at the TU Berlin
  • 1990 to 1996: Chair of the International Scientific Council of the Work and Organizational Research Center at Tilburg University
  • from 1993: Reactor Safety Commission at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  • 1994 to 1998: International Society for Applied Psychology
  • 1998: Honorary doctorate from Ghent University
  • 1999: Awarded an honorary professorship at the Academia Sinica in Beijing
  • 2001: External membership at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
  • 2003: Prize from the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Pfaff: Bernhard Wilpert (born 1936) . Obituary in the Berliner Tagesspiegel . September 14, 2007. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ On the death of Professor Bernhard Wilpert . Press release of the TU Berlin from August 27, 2007. Accessed on November 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wilpert, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 2007
Place of death Berlin