Culture, Organization and Management

Overview

In this Culture, Organization and Management MSc programme offered at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam you'll need the empathy to understand the issues from the inside, but the distance to be able to come up with workable solutions. You’ll need the critical thinking and theoretical baggage to be able to deliver tough messages, but the diplomacy to be able to communicate effectively.

Multiple perspectives, first-hand

Culture, Organization and Management (COM) at VU Amsterdam is like no other. It offers a unique perspective by drawing close to organisational practice. 

We teach you to look behind the scenes and focusing on both individual’s lived experience and the wider social context. No other university in the world offers such an ethnographic perspective on organisation and management, coupled with practical field research, grounded analysis and critical advice.

Entering the job market

• Consultancy firms – you’d be particularly well suited to consultancy firms specialising in a human approach. Some of our graduates have started their own consultancies as well.

• Management positions and traineeships in major companies – people who are culturally sensitive tend to make better leaders in today’s society.

• The public sector, NGOs and international organisations – working on international issues like climate change or humanitarian aid, especially a role as policymaker or advisor.

• Social work and medical professions – the healthcare sector, for example, has many complex issues that require an innovative, qualitative research approach to solve them.

• Communication and external relations – bringing across complex information to an external audience in a sensitive way.