Univ.-Doz. Dr. Jörg Flecker

Scientic Director FORBA

Jörg Flecker, born in 1959, is the scientific director of Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (Working Life Research Centre, FORBA).
He studied at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and accomplished a Post-Graduate-Study in Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna in 1985. He worked as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies from 1986 to 1990 and received the doctorate from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna in 1989. A visiting research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, in 1991, he was appointed head of the Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA) the same year. He taught at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and since 2003 has been external professor (Universitätsdozent) at the University of Vienna.

Main research areas: Work organisation, industrial relations, work and information technology, flexibility and internationalisation.