Institut für Technologie und Arbeit

ITA is a non-profit association and a research institute of the University of Kaiserslautern. It was founded in 1995 and employs currently about 30 junior and senior research assistants. ITA combines basic research with interdisciplinary, application-oriented concepts for the analysis and design of work and organizations. Our research results are addressed to Manufacturing Companies, Service Companies, Non-Profit-Organizations, Healthcare Organizations and Public Administrations. The head of ITA, Professor Dr. Klaus J. Zink, is also head of the Chair of Industrial Management and Human Factors at the University of Kaiserslautern. This close cooperation guarantees the connection and exchange of research, teaching and implementation.

Within our research activities, we are engaged in the reciprocal relations between human and organisation. It is our aim to capacitate companies and organizations to adapt as smoothly as possible to changes such as globalization or demographic shift. Exemplary operational challenges are complex customer requirements, health beneficial and aging-adapted design of work as well as the organizational deployment to dynamic business conditions. Therefore, the ITA aims at (re-)designing organizations in a manner that facilitates a multi-dimensional holistic optimum regarding social, technical and economical requirements. Therewith we consequently integrate the strategic stakeholders of the respective organization. Our application-oriented research fields encompass participation-oriented organization development, human resource development, corporate health management, product and service development, management of corporate networks and sustainable corporate development as well as evaluation and accompanying research.