Our programme in Business Administration is designed to impart you with the skills to design and implement organisational strategies and structures with the aim to create social and economic value. The focus is on responsible organisations which emphasises ways in which organisations interact with multiple stakeholders to perform sustainably. Within the Master's Business Administration, you have a choice between eight Master's specialisations.

Do you want to understand the challenges and issues related to managing gender equality, diversity and inclusion in organisations, designing interventions and give content to the social responsibility of organisations? During this Master's specialisation you will learn how to use everyone's full potential, which has beneficial effects for individuals, organisations and society.

Master's specialisation Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Management: something for you?

This specialisation combines multiple specialisations in business administration and political science.
We emphasize the social responsibility of organisations.
You will learn about societal, organisational and scientific urgency.
This Master's is a unique interdisciplinary approach.

What will you learn?

In the Master's specialisation in Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Management, you will learn about the role and function of gender and diversity in the workplace, connecting what happens in organisations to the underlying power processes in politics and society. Besides that, you will gain understanding in how organisations produce different structural inequalities and how these inequalities influence each other in organisational practice. The programme addresses questions about strategy, culture and identity, leadership, and the inclusion of multiple stakeholders in organisational change.

Career prospects

Master’s specialisation in Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Management

As Business Administration graduates from Nijmegen, specialised in social processes in organisations and mastering the full range of research methods, our graduates are uniquely positioned to analyse complex problems and design interventions to give content and shape to the social responsibility of organisations.

The GEM program prepares you for the function of a diversity professional in public and/or private organisations. Our graduates are likely to be tasked with the development and implementation of specialized gender and diversity policies and/or diversity and inclusion programs, or can be employed in more general talent management and/or organisational change jobs. Students are trained to become critical academic professionals, and are well positioned to enter national or international management trainee programs. Other jobs, such as policy advisor, program manager, consultant or recruiter are also possible. Students with an interest in academic research have the option to pursue a PhD.