Organizing for Global Social Challenges
Become an expert in sustainable development in an international context, by addressing global societal challenges such as poverty, inequality, migration, climate change, or humanitarian interventions after a natural disaster. In the Master's track Organizing for Global Social Challenges, you consider the role of organizations such as NGOs, firms, and social enterprises in tackling global societal challenges through different interventions. This is a track of MSc Organization and Management Studies.
You will develop a macro- and meso-level perspective on sustainable development, with emphasis on social and economic drivers and motives. Specifically, you will examine and discuss how organizations may address sustainable development goals by designing sustainable business models, and examine the difficulties and shortcomings these interventions may entail. You will explore the emergence of new hybrid organizations, like social entrepreneurship, the challenges they face, how they overcome them, and how they achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- You learn how to develop organizational interventions, run projects and assemble teams of experts who address global societal challenges.
- Become part of an innovative program that offers small-scale and interactive education provided by leading scientists and experts.
- The program does not only offer an international perspective on sustainable development but is also international in itself with students from different cultural backgrounds.
- This track offers a unique perspective on sustainable development, by specifically considering the role of organizations in addressing global societal challenges. In your Master's thesis, you will further develop this perspective by focusing on one or more SDGs.
Related tracks
- In the Master Organization and Management Studies you will learn to diagnose organizational problems, formulate research-based solutions to those problems, communicate these effectively with the relevant stakeholders, and manage the implementation processes.
- The Politics, Policy and Societal Development track gives you a different perspective on sustainable development based on the theories and methods pertinent to the Global Management of Social Issues discipline. This specialization addresses societal issues and sustainable development from a sociological perspective.
Typical courses are:
- Social Changes and Sustainable Development
- Hybrid Organizations
- Complexity within Organizations
- Inter-organizational Relationships
Na studia magisterskie mogą kandydować wszyscy, którzy ukończyli studia licencjackie lub inżynierskie (studia I stopnia), studia magisterskie lub studiują na ostatnim roku studiów I-stopnia. Studia, które planujesz powinny mieć zbliżony profil do tych obecnych lub ukończonych, ponieważ w procesie rekrutacji kluczowa jest ich zgodność programowa.
- Wykaz punktów ECTS – osoby, które są jeszcze w trakcie studiów, muszą załączyć wypis punktów ECTS, w którym będzie wykazane, jakie przedmioty były realizowane na studiach oraz ile punktów za nie otrzymano.
- Dyplom ukończenia studiów licencjackich lub inżynierskich – jeśli jesteś absolwentem wyższej uczelni, nie potrzebujesz wypisu, wystarczy załączyć dyplom ukończenia studiów wraz z suplementem (w języku angielskim lub oryginał z tłumaczeniem)
- Uwaga! Każdy kierunek magisterski może mieć inne wymagania i wymagać specyficznych dodatkowych dokumentów. Przed aplikacją sprawdź na stronie uczelni, jakich dokumentów potrzebujesz!
Spełnienie wymagań w zakresie języka angielskiego można udokumentować w następujący sposób:
- IELTS – 6.5
- TOEFL – 90
Concerning the track Politics, Policy and Societal Development (main discipline: Sociology):
- Bachelor’s and/or a Master's degree in social sciences e.g. Sociology.
- Sufficiently conversant in the social sciences e.g. knowledge of and practice in the application of (key) questions of sociology and of classical and modern sociological theories; basic knowledge of other social sciences e.g. psychology and economics;
- Adequate knowledge of social science statistics and research methods.
Track Organizing for Global Social Challenges (main discipline: Organization Studies):
- Bachelor’s and/or a Master's degree in social sciences e.g. Human Resource Studies, Global Management of Social Issues, or Business Studies.
- Basic knowledge about the social sciences e.g. sociology, psychology, research methods and statistics.
- Relevant knowledge about organizations, management and research methods
Track People management for Global Social Challenges (main discipline: HRS):
- A Bachelor's and/or a Master's degree oriented towards personnel and organizational issues e.g. Human Resource Studies, Business Studies, Organization Studies;
- Basic knowledge about the social sciences e.g. sociology, psychology, economics, research methods and statistics;
- Relevant knowledge about subjects in the field of Human Resource Studies e.g. sociology of organizations, organizational psychology, human resource management.
Applicants must pass a GMAT test. Exception applies to people who graduated from Vilnius University faculty of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Kozminski University (or Tilburg University's partner institution in other countries). The average GMAT score of accepted students at Tilburg University is 600. The GMAT institutional code for Tilburg University is VMV-LT-02.
Knowledge and skills
As a graduate you are able to:
Create a mutual understanding of the problem. Frame problems from multiple perspectives, disciplines and levels of analysis, with a focus on group dynamics.
Promote sustainable development . Analyze multiple drivers and outcomes of societal issues at multiple levels, as well as of interventions aimed at addressing global challenges - all to promote sustainable development at macro as well as micro level.
Lead and participate in the change- and innovation-oriented projects aiming to tackle these societal challenges.
With these skills you could be working as a linking pin in a multi-disciplinary team, as a project manager or as a consultant, but also as a policymaker or policy consultant confronted with inter-organizational or inter-governmental partnerships.
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