Organisationspädagogisches Wissen im Praxisfeld der Organisationsentwicklung und -beratung

Organizational education knowledge emerges in practice and in academia and expands into specific fields of practice, especially into organizational development and consultancy. The article focuses on the relations between organizational development and consultancy knowledge and its fields of practice. An overview over organizational education knowledge in (organizational) development and consultancy is offered based on an analysis of target groups, disciplinary embeddings, programs, mission statements and products. It identifies disciplinary embedded, economic-managerial, juridic-conflict-mediating, psychological-therapeutical and systemic-learning oriented knowledge sets. The article then offers three integral and parallel organizational education future scenarios: true professionalization, hybrid interprofessionalization and transprofessionalization. In this way, three parallel modes of organizational education institutionalization and professionalization are likely to occur.