 Good morning, everybody. Welcome. Good morning. Welcome to Tilburg University. Welcome to the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. My name is Jo Grab. I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Organization Studies here at Tilburg University. I'm originally from Germany, but have moved here almost 11 years ago. And I'm very excited to present to you the new bachelor. I will start in September 2015, Global Management of Social Issues. I also brought some reinforcement with my colleagues here. Ruth Davis, Nadja Poroshenko, and Ilze Fantil. Ruth Davis is the admissions officer, and Nadja does the marketing. And Ilze is the student assistant here and herself a student in human resource studies. So if you want to ask questions to them after the presentation, you are more than welcome. This program is in English, so the introductory session will also be in English. But we first of all want to give you information and give you the opportunity to ask questions. So if you are more comfortable to ask a question in Dutch, please do. So I also understand Dutch. I will repeat it in English because we will tape the session for international students because, of course, if you live somewhere in Poland or in Brazil, you cannot come to the open day just for one day. But we have the opportunity with the internet now to inform those students as well. So before I start, I would like to know where you are coming from. So anybody there outside from the Netherlands? No? Anybody there north of the Great Rivers? That's usually not even that. Oh, one. Okay. Special welcome. Then from Zeeland. Two. Welcome. Limburg. Well, and the rest is Brabant, I assume. Yeah? Okay. So I will talk a little bit more about the content, the design principles, but to kick it off, this new bachelor basically brings together three different things. One is that it's a very broad education in the social sciences. The second is that it starts from a type of problem that we increasingly face in today's world, and the third, it has an international focus. And the type of problem we will focus on in this bachelor especially is a so-called wicked problem. And here is an example. The left person says the more documents and evidence a refugee has to prove her refugee status, and then the administrator says the more suspicious they will seem to judges and officials deciding if they qualified for refugee or asylum status. So that touches a problem on the macro level, namely, for example, the refugee crisis we have coming out of Syria, for example. And here you see, of course, the solution would be to have a military intervention, to basically stabilize the country and take over the government. But Obama, for very good reasons, decided not to intervene, because it has a lot of other consequences that you cannot oversee. And this is one of the criteria for this kind of problem. And here in the little one, you see that once you find a solution, it creates other problems. Okay, that short clip already shows a little bit what this is about, a certain type of problem that has certain characteristics, but also what we can do to tackle them, and that is organize for collaboration, use diversity, use different insights. And this is one of the principles that we will apply in this bachelor. It's multidisciplinary. It will focus on different disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, sociology, economics, and to a lesser extent psychology. And as I said, we will focus on this specific type of problem and apply these theories and these methods to what we know, how to cope and tackle wicked problems. So this program does not start from individual disciplinary questions, but it starts from a practical or practical problems. And it reflects the multidisciplinary approaches, including organization studies, human resource studies, and sociology. And as I already said in the beginning, we will have an international focus, and I'll get back to that, what that especially means in this program. As the title says, Global Management of Social Issues, it's about three things. It's about organization and management, and it's about global problems, and it's about social issues. So if you combine global and organization management, you will see that we have nine cells, basically, where we combine these different perspectives. We will always start, of course, from a macro perspective. So if you have a wicked problem like the global drug problem, for example, or poverty, then we can have an international perspective. So a problem that is truly international or like global warming, for example, climate change. Then the question is, how can we organize for that? What can organizations do inside the organizational boundaries, but especially also how do you have organizations work together, or states have to work together, because many of these problems cannot be tackled by any one organization or not even by any one state. And then we will also look at what does that mean then on the individual level in terms of poverty, then the sociological approach comes back in, or in terms of the employee, for example, how do you deal with corruption if you fight crime? And this is something the colleagues from Human Resource Studies will contribute. Then we have problems that are related and are going on in a lot of different countries. So it's more a country comparative perspective or in many different organizations. And as you see, these columns are not mutually exclusive. Not to the contrary, they overlap, and that's also the idea to really make students clear that things are interconnected. And this is one of the reasons why we have increasingly wicked problems, because we live in an increasingly interconnected world. And that has as a consequence is that if we intervene, if we try to solve things that these has consequences on other issues we even haven't thought about. The third column is a comparison across countries. Here again, for example, if we look at poverty as a problem, we can do country comparative approaches and look at, so, how is poverty dealt with in the Netherlands? How is it dealt with in Germany? How is it dealt with in Brazil or in China? And learn from these comparisons also on the three different levels. So once again, you can also say wicked problems are social messes, the social issues. We have different views on problems and solutions, and the solutions are contradictory. Very often, it's very hard to already find out what is actually the problem. There are value conflicts involved. Most problems are connected to other problems. If you look at the drug problem here also in the Netherlands, you can see in the last ten years the Dutch government has repeatedly tried to deal with the wheat consumption. Then we have the coffee shops, but then you have the problem with the border towns, with Rosendal and Venlo, where you have a lot of drug tourists that creates problems as well. Now you basically bring them back with the wheat pass, and that has the problem that it goes to the black market again, so it's basically on and on and on. And the problem really is here, how can you tackle these? How can you cope with these kind of problems that seems unsolvable? And many of them, contrary to what was said in the clip, I believe we cannot really solve. So in terms of that, they are gone. As long as there are people that want to consume drugs, we will have some sort of problem. The question is how can you cope with this, so the negative consequences are limited to the best possible extent. And other characteristics here, consequences difficult to imagine, data are often uncertain or missing. These are all characteristics, which we will discuss in this Bachelor. But of course on the basis of sound theoretical knowledge and sound empirical methods. So now I talked for quite some time already. I want to know from you, also from the hopefully future students, what are in your view the most important wicked problems that we have to face in the world or in the Netherlands or in Brabant? Doesn't matter. Didn't expect that you have to work on Saturday morning, huh? But when you come here, that could happen, yeah, actually. Future conflicts in what respect? Civil conflicts? And why would these conflicts come about? So what are the reasons, possible reasons for these conflicts? Okay, yeah. Okay, environmental effects. Yeah, one of the things we can really not imagine here in the Netherlands, because it has rained a lot again, is water. One of the issues that will become a big, probably also wicked problem is water shortages in many areas of the world, origin of the world. So what can we do to solve them? That's a big question, of course, on a Saturday morning. But what do you think is important to solve them? Besides money, of course. That's also... To think about them, yeah? So to analyze them well, yeah? To look for other countries, so compare and see how other countries tackle something, exactly, yeah? So if you want people on board, now you have to show them that there's something in it for them, exactly, to share. There was another, yeah? Yeah, so to work together and to collaborate. And actually, there are three different approaches in general, how you can intervene. There are more authoritative interventions, top-down, so the government sort of decides something and then says, well, you have to do that. There is the possibility to use market competition. And then there is sort of a collaborative intervention strategy. And most of the research that we have up to today says that wicked problems actually have to be tackled in a collaborative way. We really have to mobilize all the resources, the brain power we can get. And since we have often unexpected consequences of a solution, this is the strategy to do it. So do you think wicked problems will become less or more important in the future? More? Why? Okay. Okay. So one of the things is that public finances are more and more scarce and that we see these problems. So you have to sort of find new ways, also to tackle these efficiently. So these are, again, some examples. I already talked about them, but it's important to know that it's not only sort of these grand challenges like global climate change, water shortage, drugs that are wicked problems, but we can also find them in organizations. Very often, of course, they are related to bigger societal questions. For example, the glass ceiling for women in organizations. Also, this organization has only 13% female professors. And it seems to be a very hard problem to attack. The European countries have almost all of them tried to increase the number of women also in corporate boards. And with the exception of Norway, where they really used an authoritative intervention strategy, where they made a law and basically said, well, a certain percentage has to be. It seems the problem is very resistant to change and solution, also here in the Netherlands. Another, I think, also very interesting question is, we all go to clothing stores and buy clothes, H&M or other clothing stores. But these clothes are made right now, or many other products as well, in long, long production chains. So they come from many different countries. And of course, the companies try to capitalize on low wage costs. But with that come also difficult issues like even slavery in this production change or expropriation. And the question is, how do you deal with that? So even as a company that tries to be responsible, how do you control that your companies that make the products for you and deliver the products keep to certain ethical standards? So these are all problems that have different levels of wickedness, but have sort of certain characteristics that are very interesting to look at. So apart from the content problem and the social science approach, there are other different design principles. This bachelor will be a track in the bachelor organisarcie wederschappe. That also means that if you register or enroll for this programme on StudioLink, you have to enroll for organisarcie wederschappe. But I get to the other admissions procedure in a bit. It gives a thorough introduction to the social sciences. We have a build up of the programme that in year one, and I show you the classes you would take in a second, you have an introduction year, then the second year is a deepening of knowledge and the third is an understanding, especially also with a bachelor thesis. We have a programme for mobility. So this is a programme with international orientation. We have a half a year that is entirely free, not for you to go surf, but for filling it in on your own. So there are no courses scheduled from our side, but there's the possibility for you to do a half of your internship somewhere or to go abroad, or do a minor here at this university. So year one will look like this. So you can see that year one is a lot of introductory courses, and that also has to be because you have to have some basic knowledge. So introduction to psychology, human resource studies, organisation studies, international law, economics, also to research methods in theory, research methods and statistics because we really believe that these social science methods are important for you not only to contribute to cope with wicked problems, but also for your future, possibly future education and future career. Organisations are increasingly confronted with massive amounts of data and it is more and more important to be able to make sense out of that and make that in a reliable way, so you really draw the right conclusions. And then we have a introductory course, Wicked Problems 101. This will be a course where all the different disciplines will also contribute. So sociology, organisation studies, HRS and also philosophy because we also think it's important that you get a good knowledge in ethics and in knowledge about philosophy of science. For example, what is knowledge actually? How do we deal with uncertainty in knowledge creation? The second year, as you can see, are more deepening, as I said. So we have special courses on international organisation research practicum where you will go out and basically go do your own research and developing theoretical insights and some more methods and statistics courses. In the third year, as I said, the first half is free in terms of that you can fill it in on your own. We will build up a partner relationship with partners that we will assist you in finding an internship. And we also think that half a year gives good opportunities to find good internships because some of the problems is if you only have like six weeks or eight weeks, there's not really much organisations can do with you. But the half a year, that's something also worth going abroad because it also asks some investment. And of course, we will encourage you to go study abroad. This is an international programme and we will bring in international students here to make this an international classroom. But we hope that many of you also will go abroad and get additional experience. And then we will basically wrap it up with the bachelor thesis and philosophical reflections where you will also reflect on what you have learned and what does that mean for you as a professional or future professional as well. So whom do we seek? What should you bring to be successful in this programme? So first of all, an interest in social sciences. So this is a broad social sciences programme and this is really basic. Then an interest in international social issues and organisational responses to manage them and to have the ambition to really get challenged intellectually and also personally. Being in an international classroom is exciting but also can be tiring because what we discussed before that people have different values, different cultures, that's on the one hand exciting but also needs additional work because you first also have to agree on standards of working. If you work with people from Wabant, they have basically gone through the same education and all the different non-written rules are more or less the same. So there's not probably that much room for conflict but if you deal with people from other countries that might be different but this is also a learning experience of course. Then strong analytical abilities, the interest in critical and analytical thinking and international mindsets. Respect for other cultures, that's a real condition. Intrinsic motivation and very important since the programme is in English, sufficient knowledge and skill in oral and written English. So if you come here and study this for three years or hopefully not four but that's of course a possibility. The Bachelor will prepare you for multi-disciplinary jobs in international environments organizations. I will not pretend that you will get grand jobs right away because also here in the Netherlands there is only a limited labour market yet for bachelors but internationally that's different. So if you go to the annual section countries you come with a good bachelor. The idea is more that you get a first job and then maybe come back later for a masters. You could work there in fundraising, human resources, consulting or project management. You have an international orientation and we will not focus on one type of organization. So at Economics they mainly focus on for-profit organizations. Here we focus on public non-profit and also for-profit organizations but of course in for-profit organizations it's certain types of jobs that you will mainly fit to. Then we will take a lot of effort to give you a very good education that enables you to apply for international masters. So if you want to go abroad afterwards to England or the U.S. or other countries I can assure you this is really international up to standard and you will have chances especially if you get good grades to get into international masters program. With regard to our own masters there is direct access once you complete that successfully to the masters in sociology, in organization studies and if you do a half year preparatory year you can also enter the masters in strategic management with the colleagues here in economics at the other side of the campus. So if you want to come here you have to apply. You have to register via studio link but as I said this bachelor is a track in organization. You have to register for organization or organization studies. Please also submit your application in MySES. This is the application system of Tilburg University. So we know that you want to study that track because in studio link you will only find Orgenie Saarze Wiederscheppe. We have a lot of information on the website both in English and in Dutch. So if you go here to the English website and if you want to read this all in Dutch you can go to the Dutch version and then go to Alibetra Opleidinga and there you can find the information also in Dutch.