Norbert Thom

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Norbert Thom (born August 11, 1946 in Kleinsteinlohe , Tiefenbach (Upper Palatinate) , Bavaria ; † April 21, 2019 ; resident in Köniz ) was a German - Swiss economist , specializing in business management and human resources at the University of Bern .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1966, Norbert Thom studied business administration as a major at the Kreuzgasse high school in Cologne's Nordstadt district, and economics and sociology as a minor at the University of Cologne . He had been a graduate seminar of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in Brussels and was established in 1976 with the work "operational efficiency to innovation processes" to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . At the same time he was assistant to Erwin Grochla , completed his habilitation in 1984 in Cologne for business administration and taught as a private lecturer at the University of Cologne.

In 1984 he was a substitute professor for the full C4 professorship for organization and human resources management at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 1985, he received a call to the professor of management, organization and human resources studies in German and French to the Swiss University of Friborg and was the founding director of the Department of Management and Organization at the University of Freiburg.

In 1991, Norbert Thom moved to the University of Bern to take the chair for business, organizational theory and human resources . He founded the Institute for Organization and Personnel (IOP) at the University of Bern and remained its director until 2012. In 2000/2001 he was acting director of the Institute for International Innovation Management at the University of Bern. In 2002 he co-founded the inter-faculty competence center for public management (KPM) at the University of Bern. In 2012 he retired.

Norbert Thom was involved in numerous offices, including in the Senate of the University of Freiburg (1988-90), in the Finance Committee of the University of Bern and as its Faculty of Law and Economics (1992-95), spokesman for the Department of Business Administration at the University of Bern (2001 –02) and as a member of the Standing Committee for the Competence Center for Public Management at the University of Bern (since 2002, from 2008 to 2012: Chairman of this committee). From 1995 to 1997 he was Vice-Rector of the University of Bern with responsibility for finances and planning.

He was visiting professor at the universities in Basel, Bern, Linz, Dresden, Friborg, Klausenburg (Romania), Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Regensburg.

Norbert Thom was married; his wife died in 2007 and the marriage had a son. Most recently, he lived in partnership with the lawyer and economist Françoise Bruderer, who is the managing director of the Swiss Post pension fund. Since 2011 he had both German and Swiss citizenship.

Act

Thom was the first president of the Swiss Society for Business Administration (1990–93). From 1997 to 2000 he was a member of the Swiss Science Council, an advisory body to the federal government on all questions of science policy. From 2002 to 2014 he was Vice President of the Economic Society of the Canton of Bern. From 2004 to 2005 he was a member of the board of the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration . He was represented on several boards of directors, such as the Rehau Group based in Muri and the former Bern printing press manufacturer Wifag Maschinenfabrik .

From 2000 to 2013 he was Vice President of the Foundation of the Swiss Society for Organization and Management. From 1991 to 2007 he was Vice President of the Swiss Society for Organization and Management.

Outside of the universities, Norbert Thom has given over 880 papers and lectures, around 365 specialist articles in journals and compilations, over 515 smaller articles in newspapers, magazines and specialist journals, and over 30 books he has written or edited himself, in particular on corporate innovation management and suggestion schemes Design of programs for the promotion of young leaders, for the management of change in private and public companies and for public management at all levels of government. He expressed himself critical of excess salaries in executives. He had particular success with his initiatives on the professional profile (profile) of the organizer (s) in Germany and Switzerland. Some of his publications have been translated into different languages. By 2016 there were a total of 27 languages. In addition, he was editor-in-chief of the magazineführung und Organization (zfo) from 1986 to 1995, and from 1996 to 2005 he was a member of the zfo editorial board.

Thom has repeatedly presided over the jury for the SGO Prize (1992-2004, 7 awards), the Staufenbiel Award (since 1999, 3 awards), the REHAU Award (since 2000, 12 awards), the IOP Award (since 2001 , 6 award ceremonies). He was a member of the jury of the Seghezzi Prize 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 for scientific work in the field of quality management and was a member of the jury of the Swiss HR Awards from 2003 to 2012 (annual award ceremony).

On October 17, 2016, the "Norbert Thom Foundation" was established to award prizes for academic work in the field of "Public and Private Management" at Swiss universities.

Since 1981 he has been a member of the Catholic student union AV Hansea (Berlin) in Cologne in the CV and since 2008 honorary philistine of the AKV Burgundia Bern in the Schw. StV .

honors and awards

  • 1978: Karl Guth Prize for the best German dissertation in the field of corporate management teaching (1978)
  • 1986: Co-winner of the Peter Curtius USW Prize of the University Seminar for Economics (USW)
  • 1988: Medal of Honor from the University of Linz, Austria
  • 1992: Denker Prize for contributions to innovation management and the company suggestion scheme (first award-winning individual in Switzerland)
  • 1993: Golden Idea Oscar for services in teaching and research in the areas of idea and innovation management (first individual to be awarded in Switzerland)
  • 2002: Honorary member of the Society for Organization (GfO, Germany) (at that time the only still active honorary member)
  • 2003: Honorary member of the Swiss Society for Business Administration (only professor of business administration at the time)
  • 2005: Honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from the Faculty of Law, Mykolas Romeris University , Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 2006: Honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from Johannes Kepler University Linz , Austria
  • 2006: Honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Germany
  • 2007: Honorary member of the Swiss Society for Organization and Management (SGO)
  • 2010: Honorary professor (Prof. hc) at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj , Romania
  • 2012: Honorary member of IDEE SUISSE, Swiss Society for Idea and Innovation Management
  • 2013: Senior Fellow at the Competence Center for Public Management at the University of Bern
  • 2014: Honorary member of the Economic Society of the Canton of Bern
  • 2017: Award for his life's work in "Recognition of his outstanding lifelong services and his pioneering work in the field of idea and innovation management" from the German Institute for Idea and Innovation Management
  • 2019: Honorary member of Quer.kraft - the Innovationsverein eV Nuremberg

Fonts (selection)

  • Norbert Thom, Frauke von Bieberstein, Andreas Hack (eds.): People in Organizations, IOP-Verlag, Bern 2016, ISBN 978-3-905766-54-7
  • Norbert Thom, Wenger P. Andreas: "The optimal form of organization. Basics and recommendations for action", Gabler 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-2015-7
  • Adrian Ritz, Norbert Thom (ed.): "Talent Management", Gabler 2018 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-3-8349-1811-6
  • Norbert Thom, Joanna Harasymowicz-Birnbach: Knowledge management in the private and public sector. What can both sectors learn from each other? , Vdf Hochschulverlag 2005 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-728-12983-6
  • Norbert Thom, Adrian Ritz, Reto Steiner (eds.): Effective school management: opportunities and dangers of public management in education , Haupt 2006 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-258-06878-X
  • Norbert Thom, Adrian Ritz: Public Management: Innovative Concepts for Leadership in the Public Sector , Gabler 2017 (5th edition), ISBN 3-834-90730-8
  • Norbert Thom, Robert J. Zaugg (Hrsg.): Modern Personnel Development: Recognize, Develop and Promote Employee Potential , Gabler 2008 (3rd edition), ISBN 3-834-91060-0
  • Norbert Thom, Andreas P. Wenger, Robert J. Zaugg (eds.): Cases on organization and personnel: Didactics - case studies - solutions - theory modules , Haupt 2007 (5th edition), ISBN 3-258-07225-6
  • Norbert Thom, Adrian Ritz: "Management Public. Concepts innovants dans le secteur public" , Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes 2013, ISBN 978-2-88074-995-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries of Norbert Thom. April 26, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Eminent scientist - Economics professor Norbert Thom is dead. April 26, 2019, accessed on April 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Thom Group GmbH  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Internet excerpt, Commercial Register of the Canton of Bern, accessed on January 23, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / be.powernet.ch  
  4. ^ Mathias Morgenthaler,: «You never quite suffice» , Der Bund , updated on February 3, 2012, accessed on April 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ Stefan Schnyder: "Professor Norbert Thom died" , Berner Zeitung , updated on April 26, 2019, accessed on April 29, 2019.
  6. ↑ Frauke von Bieberstein et al .: Between Practice and Science. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 30, 2019, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Thom, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinsteinlohe , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2019