Dr. Nathalie Weisenburger
Dr. Nathalie Weisenburger
Chair of Industrial Education
Scientific Employee and Lecturer
| Aufgabenbereich/Projekt: | BBG Studienberatung & Lehrstuhlmanagement |
| Forschungsbereich: | Personalentwicklung zwischen Profession und Organisation |
| Lehre: | Personalentwicklung, Coaching & Beratungskonzepte |
Current projects
Sense as a resource: Sensemaking methods to increase resilience in companies (SENSILIENZ)
Duration: 01.01.2026 to 31.12.2028
Small and medium-sized enterprises are currently under great pressure: some markets and technologies are changing rapidly, there is a shortage of skilled workers and the workforce is becoming more diverse. SMEs often have a strong corporate culture and great adaptability - but these strengths have hardly been used in a targeted manner to date. The project aims to show how companies can make better use of their culture and the experience of their employees in order to remain resilient in the long term.
In four companies from different sectors, employees, teams and the entire organization will learn how to deal better with difficult situations. With the support of researchers, they will develop and test methods to specifically strengthen their own resilience. Experiences and stories from everyday working life are collected and reflected on in interviews, triad discussions, workshops and team development. The measures are tested for their impact and adapted. At the same time, we are testing whether and how digital tools can help. The results will be disseminated via publications, training courses and digital learning opportunities.
The project uses the invisible side of knowledge and culture in organizations. It reconstructs individual and collective processes of creating meaning. To this end, it transfers analog and digital methods from social and work sciences into practical applications in everyday working life. If successful, a systematic approach and concrete interventions for reflecting on and strengthening one's own corporate culture will be available for the first time. They can be used in science, consulting and self-application.
The joint project (total budget 2,076,000 euros) is funded in the "Future of Work" funding program as part of the "Future of Value Creation - Research on Production, Services and Work" research program and co-financed by the ESF.
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Completed projects
ALL:konkret: The world of work as a context for lifelong learning - ethnographic studies on actors, agendas and arenas
Duration: 01.01.2020 to 31.12.2024
As a continuation of the "BWB:konkret" project, "ALL:konkret" also strives for an inductive description of the reality of in-company continuing education. In ethnographic company visits lasting several weeks, data, documents and information not pre-structured by hypotheses are collected, for example through work shadowing, participatory observations, individual and group interviews or the analysis of documents. The data collected is analyzed in joint research workshops and fed into further phases of data collection and evaluation. The results of this circular research process are case-specific organizational analyses that reveal the individual specifics of an organization's in-company continuing education reality and make them open to discussion both for research and for the personnel and organizational development of the organizations under investigation. The organizational analyses are also reflected upon in joint workshops with the organizations studied. The objectives are as follows:
- Reconstruction of structures, strategies, organizational forms, technologies of corporate learning (system perspective)
- Reconstruction of meaningful motives, effective theories, contradictory requirements for action and cooperation in the practice of continuing education in the workplace (actor perspective)
- Reconstruction of historical lines of development, of conditional cycles, decision-making processes and the interlocking of in-company continuing education with external and societal processes (process perspective)
- Extraction of criteria for quality and professionalism of non-formal continuing education in company contexts
- Organizational and professional theoretical classification of in-company continuing education
- Development of a scheme for surveying company learning cultures and educational practice
- Development of conceptual approaches and action strategies for the further development of an innovative continuing education policy
- Didactic preparation of the case studies for teaching purposes in the scientific education and training of educational staff
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2025
Book chapter
Zur Schlüsselrolle der Personalentwicklung in der Krisenbewältigung
Weisenburger, Nathalie
In: Sozialwissenschaften und Berufspraxis, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, S. 329-355, Sozialwissenschaftliche Beobachtungen von Krisen
Balancieren von Gegensätzen: Ambidextrie
Weisenburger, Nathalie
In: Von Scrum bis New Work: Managementmoden in der Sozialen Arbeit, Verlag Barbara Budrich, S. 124-138
Gestalterin der Freiheit? Potenziale der Personalentwicklung an der Schnittstelle zwischen Individuum, Organisation und Gesellschaft
Weisenburger, Nathalie; Sander, Evelina
In: Verspielte Freiheit in Organisationen, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, S. 303-319
2024
Book chapter
Raus aus dem Dornröschenschlaf - Personalentwicklung öffentlicher Verwaltung als Schlüssel gelungener agiler (und digitaler) Transformation
Modrzynski, Dominik; Kasseck, Saskia; Weisenburger, Nathalie
In: Agile Verwaltung 2040 , Erste Auflage - Heidelberg : Carl-Auer Verlag GmbH . - 2024, S. 257-269 [Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 268-269]
Peer-reviewed journal article
Kauffeld, S. & Rothenbusch, S. (Hrsg.). (2023). Kompetenzen von Mitarbeitenden in der digitalisierten Arbeitswelt. Chancen und Risiken für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen. - Springer Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66992-1. Softcover ISBN 978-3-662-66991-4. eBook ISBN 978-3-662-66992-1. 220 Seiten. 42,79 €
Dick, Michael; Weisenburger, Nathalie
In: Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Bd. 55, Heft 2, S. 239-243
Personalentwicklung als Profession? Zur vermittelnden Funktion von Personalentwicklung in organisationalen Widersprüchen
Weisenburger, Nathalie
In: Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Bd. 55, Heft 3, S. 405-416
2022
Dissertation
Personalentwicklung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Profession und Organisation - eine qualitativ-empirische Studie zum Professionshandeln von Personalentwickler*innen
Weisenburger, Nathalie; Dick, Michael; Weth, Rüdiger
In: Magdeburg: Universitätsbibliothek, Dissertation Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften 2022, 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 241, XVI Seiten, 5,8 MB) [Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 217-241][Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 217-241]
2020
Book chapter
Zur Rolle der Organisations- und Personalentwicklung im Digitalisierungsprozess öffentlicher Verwaltungen
Weisenburger, Nathalie; Modrzynski, Dominik; Opitz, Manja; Dick, Michael
In: Digitale Arbeit, digitaler Wandel, digitaler Mensch? / Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft , 2020 - Dortmund : GfA-Press - 2020, Beitrag C. 9.1 [Kongress: GfA-Frühjahrskongress 66; online, 2020.03.16-18]
2019
Book chapter
Professionalisierung im Berufsleben
Dick, Michael; Weisenburger, Nathalie
In: Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement - Berlin : Springer . - 2019, S. 847-867
2018
Book chapter
Strategien der Personalentwicklung zur Fachkräftesicherung im demografischen Wandel
Sander, Evelina; Weisenburger, Nathalie; Dick, Michael
In: Demografie, Bildung und Fachkräftesicherung in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern: Befunde und Problemlagen aus berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischer Perspektive - Bielefeld: wbv, S. 345-361, 2018 - (Berufsbildung, Arbeit und Innovation; 45)
Non-peer-reviewed journal article
Driving Talent Management from the Top - A Holistic Development Strategy for Cross-Brand Talent
Weisenburger, Nathalie; Jasmine, Shahani; Hofmann, Martin
In: Personalführung. (Dez 18 /Jan 19);DGFP - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Personalführung
2017
Book chapter
Professionalisierung im Berufsleben
Dick, Michael; Weisenburger, Nathalie
In: Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement- Berlin: Springer, 2017, S. 1-21
2016
Book chapter
Kompetenzermittlung und Anforderungsanalyse
Bergmann, Dana; Frosch, Ulrike; Weisenburger, Nathalie; Dick, Michael
In: Handbuch Professionsentwicklung - Bad Heilbrunn : Verlag Julius Klinkhardt ; Dick, Michael *1964-* . - 2016, S. 376-384 [Literaturangaben]
Kompetenzermittlung und Anforderungsanalyse
Bergmann, Dana; Frosch, Ulrike; Weisenburger, Nathalie; Dick, Michael
In: Handbuch Professionsentwicklung / Michael Dick, Winfried Marotzki, Harald Mieg (Hrsg.) - Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, 2016 . - 2016, S. 376-384[Literaturangaben]
2014
Book chapter
The didactical design of virtual reality based learning environments for maintenance technicians
Haase, Tina; Weisenburger, Nathalie; Termath, Wilhelm; Frosch, Ulrike; Bergmann, Dana; Dick, Michael
In: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Applications of Virtual and Augmented Reality / Shumaker , Randall - Cham [u.a.] : Springer ; Shumaker, Randall . - 2014, S. 27-38 - (Lecture notes in computer science; 8526) Kongress: VAMR 6 Heraklion 2014.06.22-27