MSc in Business, Language and Culture

This concentration prepares you to manage cultural complexity and organisational dynamics with a focus on the global challenges of international business and their implication for management practice. You develop cultural competences and proficiency in English and a second foreign language.

The practice of effective leadership in any context requires the management of multiple relationships, transactions, and even conflicts with a variety of different parties.

In the LMS concentration, you develop an understanding of the theory of practice of leadership and management in complex organisations as well as project management skills. You acquire the insights needed to lead and manage effectively in overlapping cultural contexts. The concentration provides you with a practical and relational understanding of cultures as strategic and symbolic resources that you can mobilise to your own advantage and to the advantage of the organisations you lead.

Career Opportunities
The leadership skills and insights acquired in LMS are relevant to many career paths, including:

• general management
• consulting
• project management
• product management
• entrepreneurial ventures
• communications and media relations
• public management
• international development and aid work.