Management of Cultural Diversity Tilburg University

Overview

With the  Management of Cultural Diversity program from Tilburg University you'll learn how to develop cooperation strategies for the customers of organizations, and for citizens with diverse life styles, identities, orientations, and world views.

The leading program in the Netherlands has a diverse student body and an intensive, interactive educational approach that fosters in-depth analysis and discussion with peers and lecturers.

Besides learning how to neutralize risks, you will also learn to see the opportunities cultural diversity brings and how organizations and society can benefit from these opportunities, for example through strategies and policies. Understand and manage important organizational and societal challenges, such as:

• What does it mean to a hospital when patients with various religious beliefs need tailor-made care?
• What are the consequences when citizens representing different identities, traditions, languages and beliefs send their children to mixed schools?
• Do people with different ethnic backgrounds get equal opportunities in the labor market?
• How can employers deal with challenges related to working with quotas regarding the composition of their workforce?

Internationally oriented, combining insights from culture studies, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, organization and management studies and human resource studies. This is a track of MA Culture Studies. 

Career prospects

Upon graduating you will have obtained the following title (as stated on your diploma): MA Culture Studies, specialization Management of Cultural Diversity.

This specialization will enable you to analyze cases involving cultural diversity and to propose interventions that managers, policy makers and government officials can work with. You may focus on the management of a culturally diverse workforce within companies and organizations or work on policy development and implementation related to issues of cultural diversity in society within governmental organizations or NGOs.

Some of our graduates' jobs include:

• Consultant at Ministry of Justice and Security
• Project Coordinator Inclusion & Diversity at PwC
• Client Relations Team Leader at Richemont
• HR Strategy Coordinator at Mechhive