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Norbert Thom (born on 11th August 1946 in Kleinsteinlohe, Tiefenbach, Bavaria; residing in Köniz, Switzerland; Swiss citizen since 2011) is a German-Swiss economist and emeritus professor at the University of Bern where he taught business administration, organization design and human resource management until he retired in summer 2012.

Education
Norbert Thom studied business administration and the minor subjects macro-economics and sociology at the University of Cologne. In 1976 he received his doctoral degree (Dr.rer.pol) for his dissertation: ‘On the efficiency of innovation processes’. He was a member of the graduate seminar of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in Brussels. At the same time he was an assistant to Erwin Grochla. In 1984 he got postdoctoral teaching qualification and taught business administration at the University of Cologne.

Faculty positions
In 1984 he worked as Deputy to the Chair of Organization and Human Resource Management at Justus-Liebig University/Giessen. Then he received in 1985 his appointment to the professorial Chair of Management, Organization and Human Resources at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland in both, German and French languages and was Founder and head of the Corporate Management and Organization Seminar newly established at the University.

Norbert Thom moved in 1991 to the University of Bern where he founded the Institute for Organization and Human Resource Management (IOP) and remained its director until 2012. In the academic year 2000/2001 he was appointed there Acting Director of the Institute for International Innovation Management. In 2002 he co-founded the interfacultary Competence Center for Public Management (KPM) at Bern University.

Norbert Thom was appointed to numerous positions. Among others he served as:


 * Member of the Senate Committee, University of Fribourg; representative of economic sciences (1988-90).
 * Member of the Finance Commission of the University of Bern and head of finance at the Faculty of Law and Economics (1992-95).
 * Vice-chancellor of the University of Bern; responsible for finance and planning (1995-1997).
 * Spokesman of the Business Administration Department at the University of Bern (2001-02).
 * Member of the permanent board, Center of Competence for Public Management, University of Bern (2002-2012; chairman of the board 2008-2012).
 * Member of the strategic planning committee of the rectorate, University of Bern (2005-2006)
 * Member of the ‘Comité de Pilotage’, Swiss Public Administration Network (SPAN) and member of SPAN’s scientific committee for doctoral studies (ProDoc) in administration sciences (2008-2012)
 * Member of the academic committee (until 2002) and of Forum for University and Sociaty, University of Bern (2002-2018)
 * Member of the advisory board of Bern University’s Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) and Executive Master in Marketing Management and Sales programme (2013-present)
 * Senior Fellow, Center of Competence for Public Management, University of Bern (2013-present)
 * Senior Fellow, Center for Health Care Law and Management, University of Bern (2017-present)
 * Visiting professor at the universities of Basel, Bern, Linz, Dresden, Fribourg, Vilnius (Lithuania), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Regensburg.

Achievements

 * Norbert Thom was the first President of the Swiss Society of Business Economics (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft) (1990-93).
 * He was member of the Swiss Science Council – an advisory board to the Federal Government on issues related to science policy (1997-2000).
 * Vice-president of the Economic Society of the Canton of Bern (2002-2014)
 * Member of the board of the Association of University Professors of Business Administration (2004-2005).
 * Vice-President of the Foundation of the Swiss Association for Organization and Management (2000-2013).
 * Vice-President of the Swiss Association for Organization and Management (1991-2007).
 * Member of the Catholic student fraternity AV Hansea (Berlin) to Cologne (since 1981) and since 2008 honorary philistines of the AKV Burgundia Bern in the Swiss Student Society
 * Chief editor of the magazine ’Führung und Organization’ (zfo), a journal on management and organization (1986-1995). Member of zfo advisory publishing committee (1996-2005).


 * President of the following award jurys in science and economics practice:

SGO-Award (1992-2004, 7 awards)

Award (since 1999, 3 awards)

REHAU-Award (since 2000, 12 awards)

IOP-Award (since 2001, 6 awards)

Seghezzi Award (since 2003, 6 awards)

Annual Swiss HR Award (2003 to 2012, 10 awards)

Schmeller Prize (2002-2014, 13 awards)

Norbert Thom Prize (first award in 2017, second award in 2019)

Head of the expert board evaluating the Honors graduate programmes in economics and business sciences of the University of Regensburg on behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education (2017)


 * Founder and president of ‘Stiftung Norbert Thom’, founded in 17th of October 2016, a foundation endowing prizes for academic achievements (doctoral achievements) in the field of ‘Public and Private Management’ at Swiss universities.

Honors and Awards

 * 1978 – Karl-Guth Award for the best German doctoral dissertation in corporate management.
 * 1986 – Co-winner of Peter-Curtius-USW Award of the University Seminar of Economics (USW).
 * 1988 – Honorary Medal of the University of Linz, Austria.
 * 1992 – Denker-Award for contributions on innovation management and business suggestion systems (First individual winner in Switzerland).
 * 1993 – Golden Idea-Oscar for merits in teaching and research in the fields of idea and innovation management (First individual winner in Switzerland).


 * 2002 – Honorary member of the German ‘Gesellschaft für Organisation’ (GfO). Only actively working honorary member.
 * 2003 – Honorary member of the Swiss Society of Business Economics (Only member actively working as professor of business administration).
 * 2005 – Doctor honoris causa (Dr. hc), Faculty of Law, Mykolas Romeris University of Vilnius, Lithuania.
 * 2006 – Doctor honoris causa (Dr. hc), Johannes-Kepler-University, Linz, Austria.
 * 2006 – Doctor honoris causa (Dr. hc), Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
 * 2007 – Honorary member of ‘Gesellschaft für Organisation und Management’ (SGO), Swiss Association for Organization and Management.
 * 2010 – Professor honoris causa (Prof. hc), Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoka, Romania.


 * 2011 – Honorary Member of IDEE- SUISSE® - ‘Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Ideen- und Innovationsmanagement’ (Swiss Society for Ideas and Innovation Management).
 * 2013 – Senior Fellow at the Center of Competence for Public Management at the University of Bern
 * 2014 – Honorary member of the ‘Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft’ (National Economic Association) of the Canton of Bern.
 * Honorary award for lifetime achievement by ‘Deutsches Institut für Ideen- und Innovationsmanagement’, Frankfurt am Main (2017)
 * SIBE teaching award, School of International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE), Steinbeis University, Berlin (2017)
 * Honorary member of: Ehrenmitglied von Quer.kraft – an iInnovation association in the regin of Nürnberg (2019)

Publications (selection)
Norbert Thom has published about 365 scientific articles in magazines and collected editions, more than 515 short contributions in newspapers, magazines and journals and more than 30 books as author or editor, mostly in the field of corporate innovation management, planning of programs for fostering young talents, transformation management in private and public enterprises and public management at all government levels.

He gained particular success with his initiatives in Germany and Switzerland regarding the organizer’s job profile. Some of his publications have been translated into by now 27 different languages. Here is a selection of significant publications:


 * Norbert Thom, Frauke von Bieberstein, Andreas Hack (Publisher): ‘People in organizations’ (Menschen in Organisationen), IOP publishing house, Bern 2016, ISBN 978-3-905766-54-7


 * Norbert Thom, Wenger P. Andreas: ‘The optimal organizational form: basics and recommendations for action’ (Die optimal Organisationsform. Grundlagen und Handlungsempfehlungen), Gabler 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-2015-7


 * Adrian Ritz, Norbert Thom (Editor): ‚Talent Management‘, Gabler 2018 (3nd edition), ISBN 978-3-8349-1811-6
 * Norbert Thom, Joanna Harasymowicz-Birnbach: ‘Knowledge management in the private and public sector. What both sectors can learn from each other?’, (Wissensmanagement im privaten und öffentlichen Sektor. Was können beide Sektoren voneinander lernen?), Vdf University Publishing 2005 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-728-12983-6


 * Norbert Thom, Adrian Ritz, Reto Steiner (Editor): ‘Effective school management: opportunities and risks of public management in education’, (Effektive Schulführung: Chancen und Gefahren des Public Managements im Bildungswesen), 2006 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-258-06878-X
 * Norbert Thom, Adrian Ritz: Public Management: ‘Innovative concepts for leadership in the public sector’, (Innovative Konzepte zur Führung im öffentlichen Sektor), Gabler 2017 (5th edition), ISBN 3-834-90730-8
 * Norbert Thom, Robert J. Zaugg (Editor): ‘Modern personnel development: Recognizing, developing and promoting employee potential’, (Moderne Personalentwicklung: Mitarbeiterpotenziale erkennen, entwickeln und fördern), Gabler 2008 (3rd edition), ISBN 3-834-91060-0
 * Norbert Thom, Andreas P. Wenger, Robert J. Zaugg (Editor): ‘Organization and Staff Cases: Didactics - Case Studies - Solutions - Theory Building Blocks’, (Fälle zu Organisation und Personal: Didaktik - Fallstudien - Lösungen - Theoriebausteine), 2007 (5th edition), ISBN 3-258-07225-6
 * Norbert Thom, Adrian Ritz: ‘Public Management. Innovative concepts in the public sector’, (Management Public. Concepts innovants dans le secteur public), French polytechnic and university presses, 2013, ISBN 978-2-88074-995-8

Weblinks

 * Publications by and about Norbert Thom in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library


 * Literature about Norbert Thom in the catalog of the German National Library


 * Norbert Thom on the website of the Institute for Organization and Personnel of the University of Bern (Memento of January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive)


 * BORIS: Bern Open Repository and Information System