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Management of Cultural
Diversity
Dr. Hans Siebers
Information Session
Focus of Management of Cultural Diversity
Aims
Program
Career Perspectives
Practical issues
Premasters
Further information and contact
Focus
Cultural diversity has always marked social
Iife in modern societies
Cultural diversity in terms of :
Cultural differences
Linguistic differences
Religious differences
Different identities
…
Focus
On top of that, globalization drives people,
images, symbols, information, capital, goods,
products and so on to increasingly move from one corner of
the world to another, people communicate with other people
many miles away
Focus
Result:
Diversity !
Focus
People with different backgrounds, adhering to different
religions, speaking different languages and constructing
different identities meet each other:
• in societal sectors (education, labour market, health
care…) as patients, doctors, teachers, students…
• and in companies or non-profit organizations as
employees, colleagues, supervisors,
customers ...
Focus
Producing challenges:
• The risks of tensions, miscommunication, conflict, even
violence…
• The opportunities of creativity, innovation, organizational
and social development…
Focus
Thus the need for management and policies to:
• Neutralize these risks
• Take advantage of these opportunities
Focus: hot issues
What does it mean to a hospital when patients with various religious
beliefs need tailor-made care?
How are production and service delivery affected when people from all
parts of the world come together to communicate and work in one
company?
What are the consequences when citizens representing different
identities, traditions, languages and beliefs send their children to mixed
schools?
Focus: hot issues
Do people with different ethnic backgrounds get equal
opportunities in the labor market?
What does it mean for the performance of a company or team
when employees with all kinds of backgrounds try to cooperate?
Aims
MCD provides the tools, knowledge, skills and critical analytical ways of
thinking, to analyze, interpret and approach issues of cultural diversity!
And with the means to design strategies and interventions to deal with these
issues based on this analysis and understanding, taking into account social
and societal responsibility.
These tools will enable students to perform their future profession in an
independent way and at an academic level!
Program
Program
Full-time programme (one year / 60 ects)
Title: Master of Arts (MA)
English speaking and international
Intensive and challenging
Small scale education methods
Balance between theory and practice
Variety of working methods and assignments
Relatively new and unique!
Program
Management of Cultural Diversity ECTS CREDITS
Unit 1
MCD Introduction Course
Cultural Identity and Diversity
Research Skills Module 1
6
6
3
Unit 2
Cultural Diversity Policies
Cultural Diversity Management
Research Skills Module 2
6
6
3
Unit 3
MCD Research Practicum
Variable course
Master thesis start-up (part of thesis)
6
6
3
Unit 4
Master thesis 15
Study Load
Average40 hours per week
Average contact hours 10 hoursper week
60 ECTS or 1680 hours
(28hrs = 1 ECTSincluding class time)
Thesis subjects: examples
Leadership strategies and the inclusion of minority employees in health care
Which kind of management strategies produce the best results to make employees with a migration background feel accepted and recognised in a nursing home in West-Brabant?
Work participation of workers belonging to the Mapuche ethnic group in a food packaging company in Southern Chile
What are the factors that influence the degree in which workers with a Mapuche ethnic group background manage to participate in decision-making in a food packaging factory in the southern part of Chile?
Soft skills and the performance (assessments) of police officers with a migration background in the Danish police
What are differences in the performance and assessments of soft skills like communicative skills between officers with and without a migration background in the Danish police force?
Career perspectives
Career perspectives
The program offers a Master’s career to prepare students for jobs focusing on
management and policy intervention regarding cultural diversity in
organizations and societal fields.
MCD prepares you for jobs like:
Management consultant
Project worker
Personnel manager
Human resource advisor
Researcher
Policy advisor
Policy maker
Consultant
Communication officer and designer
Premaster’s
Premasters
Meant for:
those who have a HBO Bachelor or an academic Bachelor with
insufficient expertise that is needed to do MCD well and properly
Nature:
a one-year premaster program
Now:
General program. HBO students who do the premaster as part
of their HBO program have a tailor-made program.
Premasters
Focus: improve your knowledge and understanding on the
following issues:
• Management and organization from a scientific point of view
(12 ects)
• Sciencific approaches on culture and cultural diversity (12
ects)
• Research and research methodology (18 ects)
Total of 42 ects
Required to pass for being allowed to pass on to the Master
MCD Premasters
First semester:
• Library instruction (0 ects)
• Management, Organization and Culture (6 ects)
• Strategic Human Resource Management (6 ects)
• Thinking about Science (6 ects)
• Doing Reseach 2.1 (6 ects)
• Language, Culture and Globalization (6 ects)
Second semester:
• Doing Research 2.2 (6 ects)
Choose 2 courses out of:
• Sociolinguistics (6 ects)
• Social Implications of Globalization (6 ects)
Bachelor’s-before-Master’s rule (Harde Knip)
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The rule means that you can only start studying for your
Master’s degree once you have completed your
Bachelor’s
The Bachelors-before-Masters rule will apply to all
students starting a Master’s program
Please contact your academic advisor on time for detailed information!
Practical issues
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Collegegeldwizard:
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/students/administration/tuitionfees/rates/
More information
For general information:
www.tilburguniversity.edu/master/mcd
www.tilburguniversity.edu/studiegids
More information
Dr. Hans Siebers (program coordinator)
+31 13 466 3326
Open hour each Tuesday in D228 after 17.00 h
Cathy de Waele (Academic Adviser)
+31 13 466 2579
Thank Youwww.tilburguniversity.edu
