 Hello, my name is Jörg Rapp, I am the Educational Director of the Department of Organization Studies here at Tilburg University and I would like to welcome you to the open day here on the internet. I am originally from Germany but I have been working here for several years and in this clip and the next clips I would like to give you some of the ins and outs of the Masters of Organization Studies. Organizations are everywhere. Almost all goods and services nowadays are produced by organizations or in organizations. They are very useful, they help us to achieve a lot of things. If you think for example about your day to day, you woke up with probably the radio which is an organization, you switched on the electricity which is an organization, you switched on the water delivered by the waterworks which is an organization and now you are listening to a clip that has been produced by an organization. However, organizations can also miserably fail or they can do great damage or even commit crimes. Here in the Masters of Organization Studies we focus on complexity and dynamics which is the question to what extent are organizations embedded in relations and networks with other organizations and to what extent are they able to adjust themselves to changes in the environment. The Masters of Organization Studies provides a great insight into all sorts of present day organizations so we do not exclusively focus on private organizations or non-profit organizations but look at the big range of today's organizations and the theories that help us explain why they function and why they might fail. We follow an interdisciplinary approach so we look at literature and research from psychology, from sociology, also from business studies and economics. We have a very strong focus on analytical skills so if you are interested in how to analyze problems that are deeply rooted then this is the program for you. If however you want to look more for a very hands on how to do things approach then you might be better off at another program. In that endeavor we link the program very closely to the departmental research program and I'll get back to that when I talk about the curriculum. And last but not least we pay a lot of attention to make sure that the skills you learn here facilitate very good jobs and good employment nationally and internationally.