Management of Cultural Diversity
Become an expert in managing a culturally diverse workforce within companies and organizations. Research multilingualism, gender inequality, and intercultural competences. Develop policies solving important societal challenges such as equal opportunities in the labor market, the educational or the healthcare system and the participation of refugees in society. This is a track of MA Culture Studies.
Examine the opportunities and risks that cultural diversity brings within organizations, companies and social domains such as health care, education and the labor market. Based on these analyses, formulate policies or interventions to exploit opportunities and neutralize risks.
Learn to understand and manage organizational and societal challenges that come with cultural diversity.
- Reflect on questions such as:
- What does it mean for 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 a company customize its services to customers from all over the world
- How can employers deal with challenges related to working with quotas regarding the composition of their workforce
- What should managers and policymakers do to make diversity work?
- Learn to approach complex issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining insights from culture studies, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, organization and management studies and human resource studies.
- Apply your theoretical knowledge to real-life cases within companies and organizations.
This is a track of MA Culture Studies. You specialize by following one of its tracks.
Typical courses are:
- Cultural Identity and Diversity
- Cultural Diversity Management
- Cultural Diversity Policies
- Industries and Infrastructures
- Media Interventions: Practices and Debates
Į magistro studijų programas gali stoti visi, baigę universitetą arba besimokantys paskutiniame kurse. Studijos kurias baigei ar tebesimokai turi būti panašios krypties kaip ir tos, į kurias nori stoti, kadangi priėmimas yra paremtas ECTS kreditų suderinamumu.
- ECTS kreditų išrašas - jei dar nesi baigęs aukštosios mokyklos, būtina prisegti ECTS kreditų išrašą, kuriame būtų matyti, kokius dalykus Tu mokeisi bei kokius pažymius ir kiek kreditų už juos gavai. Kai siunti anketą paskutiniame kurse, diplomą reikia prisegti vėliau, kai tik jį gausi.
- Bakalauro diplomas – jei jau esi baigęs aukštąją mokyklą, išrašo nereikia, užtenka prie anketos prisegti savo Bakalauro diplomą.
SVARBU: anglų kalbos testo sertifikatą privaloma pateikti kartu su visais dokumentais, atsiunčiant anketą. Universitetas nesvarsto stojimo anketų be anglų kalbos testo rezultatų, todėl sertifikatą privaloma pateikti iki stojimo pabaigos. Anglų kalbos žinias gali patvirtinti vienu iš šių būdų:
- IELTS – 6.5, ne mažiau nei 6.0 iš kiekvienos dalies
- TOEFL – 90
A Bachelor degree in a relevant discipline, such as general Communication Studies, Linguistics, or a modern language. Students with a Bachelor degree in a different subject are most welcome to apply, but we strongly recommend that you consult us in advance for advice.
An important requirement for being admitted to the program is an adequate knowledge of research methodology, since this forms an important part of the program.
The programme offers a Master’s career to prepare students for jobs focusing on management and policy intervention regarding cultural diversity in organizations and societal fields. The programme will have an explicit international orientation so students are expected to find a place on the labour market in a variety of countries in Europe and beyond. Your work will either focus on management of a culturally diverse workforce within companies and organizations (profit and non-profit) or you will be working on policy development and implementation regarding issues of cultural diversity in society within governmental organizations or NGOs. More specific, MCD prepares you for jobs like:
- Management consultant
- Project worker
- Personnel manager
- Human resource advisor
- Organisation advisor
- Researcher
- Policy advisor
- Policy maker
- Consultant
- Communication officer and designer
