Our philosophy

Our thoughts and actions have one goal - YOUR SUCCESS

  • The focus of our consulting activities is the human being - as an individual or as part of a holistic system.
  • The goal of our consulting is the development of an integrative personality or effective organization.
  • We want to help our customers to help themselves.
  • As consultants, we form a synthesis of sound theory and practical experience.
  • We never want to lose the ability to become richer by experience - permanent education is our duty.

Our quality

We are committed to no one but our high moral and ethical standards and our strict quality criteria.

Seriousness | objectivity | discretion | sense of responsibility - are the pillars of our success.

National and international awards and certificates are proof of our lived quality

  • CMC | Certified Management Consulting - the International Council of Management Consulting confirms that we meet the highest international quality standards in the consulting field
  • Association for Talent Development [vormals American Society for Development and Training] – Best practice im Bereich Center of ExcellenceDie Ergebnisse der weltweiten Benchmarking-Studie der Association for Talent Development beweisen die hohe Qualität der Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftspsychologie und Organisationsdynamik in der Führungskräfteentwicklung
  • CCT - Certified Customer Training - Austrian Federal Economic Chamber - Professional Association for Management Consulting and Information Technology
  • CBT - Certified Business Training - Austrian Federal Economic Chamber - Professional Association for Management Consulting and Information Technology
  • Evaluation study of our personality and competence development
    The study is based on 4,500 feedback forms (managers at all management levels [n = 2,600] - employees [n = 1,900]).
  • Certification Occupational Psychology - Association of Austrian Psychologists
  • ISO 10 667 - Conformity for personnel diagnostics
  • DIN 33430 | Ö-NORM A 4000 - Conformity for personnel diagnostics

Quality | Confidentiality Obligation

All our employees are subject to the strictest confidentiality obligations

  • Psychologists and psychotherapists
  • Management Consulting
  • Certified Management Consulting
  • Code of Conduct and Corporate Governance of the Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics
    Our internal management and control systems [risk management, data protection and data security concept] prevent the disclosure of confidential data.

Our management

Dipl.-Psych. Mag. Josef Wegenberger, CMC

Oliver Wegenberger, BSc. MSc.

Josef Wegenberger

Training
Study of psychology | pedagogy
Psychotherapy - training (conversational psychotherapy, behavioral therapy)
Management Consultant [CMC]

Further education and training
Several trainer trainings [Certificates: CCT |CBT]
Training as an instructional trainer
Certified industrial, business and organizational psychologist

Experience
Several years of experience as head of human resources development [industrial group].
Managing Director of the Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics, since 1988
Lectureship at the University of Vienna
Business psychologist, consultant to numerous national and international companies

Oliver Wegenberger

Education
Studies of Psychology at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna [BSc. | MSc.]

Further education and training
Certification in Industrial and Organizational Psychology [Professional Association of Austrian Psychologists].

Experience
Member of the management board of the Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics
Several years of experience in the field of personnel and competence diagnostics
University lecturer at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna
FH-Lector at the University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna
FH-Lector at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten
Doctoral student at the MODUL University Vienna

Our social responsibility

Dealing with animate and inanimate nature, climate and environmental protection, and sustainability in all areas are central elements of our corporate culture and our thoughts and actions.

2004 - date

In our Seminar.Center the catering consists of 95% vegetarian and vegan foods

2017 - date

Since 2017, we have relied 100% on green electricity in all buildings

2017 - 2021

Every year we offset our unavoidable CO2 emissions by planting trees and shrubs

2018 - date

Since 2018, we have pushed public transport in our mobility

2020

We have made our contribution to the urban climate by planting additional trees and shrubs in our yards at the Glasergasse 3 location

2021

Since 2021, our photovoltaic system has been contributing to the energy self-sufficiency and CO2 neutrality of our company

2022

Our further plans:

  • Switch to e-cars
  • Continuation of the POOL solution for our vehicle fleet
  • Switch to climate-neutral heat generation

2023

Yes we do....
We consequently continue our "Green Way" as a company for business psychology and organizational dynamics: Our 1st pool car - 100% electric

We have been supporting projects and organizations for "people and animals" for more than 12345 days now. We understand these activities as a self-image of our company.

The protection of our environment is close to all our hearts - that's why we recommend venues that are easily accessible by public transport when holding seminars.

Our history

  • March 31, 1988

     

    Founded as the Institute for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics by Josef Wegenberger, CMC | Karl Redl | Sylvia Wegenberger.

    The transformation of the company into a limited liability company and the simultaneous change of name to Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftspsychologie und Organisationsdynamik took place in 1989.

  • April 1988

     

    Major order ERSTE Austrian SparCasse [today Erste Bank].
    Development of the computer-based test system for personnel selection of all employees based on a holistic competence model developed especially for ERSTE.

  • September 1988

     

    ÖIAG | Austrian Industries - Holding Company of Austrian Nationalized Industry
    Management development program for executives of ÖIAG and Austrian Industries Group and their subsidiaries and affiliates, OMV, VÖEST, Böhler-Uddeholm, Elin, ...

  • October 1988

     

    OMV AG is won as a customer in the field of personality and competence development, hundreds of seminars follow in the next decades

  • 1989

     

    Campaign with the magazine GEWINN
    Together with the magazine GEWINN, an Austria-wide campaign is carried out for interested readers under the motto "Test your career potential" - more than 2,000 take advantage of this offer; further successful campaigns will follow in the next 20 years

  • 1990

     

    15 TOP 500 companies are among our customers

  • 1991

     

    Austrian National Bank - Order to develop a 25-hour computer-based learning program for the "Foreign Exchange Statistical Reporting Provisions" - more than 20,000 employees in 1250 reporting banks and savings banks to be trained in 6 months - The most extensive learning program in Europe at the time

  • 1992

     

    Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts of the Republic of Austria - Development of Quality Standards for Learning Programs in the School Classroom

  • 1992

     

    The Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics is again named Company of the Year in the GEWINN competition in the category of consulting companies after 1991.

  • 1993

     

    Karl Redl leaves the management due to illness - Sylvia Wegenberger joins the management (CFO, COO)

  • 1997

     

    First large personality and competence development projects in public administration

  • 1998

     

    Association for Talent Development [vormals American Society for Training and Development] – Bench marking mit über 700 Managementinstituten weltweit – “best practice”

  • 2002

     

    Successful exhibition in the Hermesvilla - Dealing with stress with more than 15,000 visitors

  • 2003

     

    15 years of strategic partnership with WEKA-Verlag - publication of standard works on personnel management
    "Efficient personnel search, selection and management", WEKA, 1988-1994
    "Leadership practice", WEKA, 1996-2004
    "Good conversations promote employees", WEKA, 1998

  • 2004

     

    The Seminar.Center in Glasergasse 3 is opened; the concentration of offices at the Glasergasse 3 location follows in spring 2006

  • 2007 | 2011 | 2014

     

    CMC - Certified Management Consultant - The Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics is awarded this international seal of approval for high-quality consulting services

  • 2007

     

    Development of a comprehensive competence system as a basis for competence-oriented personnel development [managementcube | teammembercube | competencecube].
    Definition of all success-relevant competencies [abilities | skills | attitudes |personal and social competencies | ...].

  • 2008

     

    The core competence of the Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics is extended by the areas of sports psychology diagnostics and sports psychology - support of athletes and soccer clubs of the German and Austrian Bundesliga

  • 2010

     

    150th personnel development project is realized with an international industrial company

  • 2012 - 2014

     

    New development of managementcube | personnel diagnostics | test and assessment systems 6th generation

  • 2013

     

    150th organizational development project is implemented in public administration

  • 2014

     

    Further internationalization of the Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics

  • 2015

     

    2.000.000 test applications of managementcube | Personaldiagnostik - The system of test diagnostics, which has been in use since 1988 and has been permanently developed further, reaches the 2 million mark

  • 2016

     

    Strategic partnership with TRESCON GROUP in the area of managementcube | personnel diagnostics

  • 2017

     

    managementcube | personnel diagnostics - active worldwide
    Austrian companies are supported worldwide by the accurate selection of employees and executives

  • 2018

     

    11111 days
    Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics

  • October 2018

     

    Oliver Wegenberger becomes third managing director of the company

  • 2019

     

    The 12,000th potential | competence analysis is carried out

  • 2019

     

    managementcube | Test and Assessment System is presented worldwide in cooperation with Advantage Austria

  • 2020

     

    Through the Corona Church, we are strengthening our online offering - selection interviews, assessments, workshops, etc. take place 100% online at times.

  • 2021

     

    Contribution of Josef Wegenberger and Oliver Wegenberger to the editor's book "Agile Führungskräfteentwicklung" (Agile Leadership Development) with a contribution on the topic of "Standortbestimmung in der agilen Führungskräfteentwicklung" (Location Analysis in Agile Leadership Development)

  • 2021

     

    Publication of the book "Talent and Competence Management - An Application-Oriented Perspective" by Oliver Wegenberger and Josef Wegenberger in Springer Verlag.

  • 2022

     

    12345 days Society for Business Psychology and Organizational Dynamics

  • 2023

     

    Talent- und Kompetenzmanagement. Springer-Verlag – mehr als 100.000 Downloads der ebook Variante

    Mit Novemer 2023 haben wir mit unserem Fachbuch Talent- und Kompetenzmanagement – eine Perspektive (Wegenberger, O. und Wegenberger, J.). Springer Gabler (2021) die 100.000-Marke erreicht und „übersprungen“.

  • 2023

     

    Begleitung des umfangreichsten Change- und Unternehmensentwicklungsprojekt in unserer Firmengeschichte

    10.000 Mitarbeiter/innen
    600 Management-Kompetenzanalysen (jeweils mehrstündige Einzelverfahren) – Center of Competence
    Bewertung aller Führungskräfte der Organisation (4 Führungskarriere- und Hierarchieebenen)

  • 2024

     

    Unsere Publikationen in den verschiedenen Verlagen – WEKA | THEAITHETOS | Haufe | Springer – mehr als 200.000 Exemplare

    Die Autor/innen der Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftspsychologie und Organisationsdynamik haben in den letzten 35 Jahren zahlreiche Bücher in verschiedenen Verlagen publiziert