Master in Management of Organizational Development at LUT University (Letter of Motivation)
Here is the statement of Purpose I wrote for this Master's program from Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology. This letter landed me to round two. In 2nd round, they asked questions similar to the topic we wrote in these preliminary letters of intent, like why are you interested in this program? What do we plan to do after completing Master? How are these studies particularly related to our background? But in round 2, we are required to answer in a recorded video.
I hereby wish to describe my keen interest
in a place in the master’s program in Management of Organisational Development at LUT
University.
The main reason I have chosen this master program is to develop
my career and pursue post graduate education in field of management and engineering
with an excellent scholar who can practice international standards in the
domain. As a Professional Engineer with working experience of approximately 10
years in variety of industries, and have seen and gone through a lot of
technological, system and processes changes and while living in Saudi Arabia
now even experiencing the much needed societal change so now it’s time for me
to get a professional degree which enables my understanding in a more advance
way to manage change. I find that this is essential for development of any
country & organization especially if both lacks the human resource in this
sector which I believe is hindering the success of key development on
organizational and even country level.
The world is changing rapidly because of the use
of Robotics, automation and Artificial intelligence in every walk of life and has
inaugurated numerous projects in different sectors (Power, Green Energy, Construction,
Infrastructure etc.) for economic well-being. Most of these projects involve
very advanced technology-based features and functions. Hundreds of projects are
being implemented while many are in planning and surveying stages.
Beneficiaries believe in the spectacular outcome that is described, but all
these projects being implemented across the world will be useless and if they
are not analyzed and managed in a systematic way. The number of such professionals
who have multidisciplinary approach and systematic vision to bring this change
for organizational development are not enough and will be in demand.
During the COVID Pandemic, the world has seen a
drastic change in its almost every form, from working remotely to online
shopping, online education and far many contact less practices, as a working
professional, I myself have experienced the environment of running businesses
remotely. It is then, when I felt the need of managing change for better and
safe future is required.
They say, “change is the only constant” and we are seeing the
exponential change at a very rapid pace as we entered the era of 4th
industrial revolution. With the advent of AI and machine learning, now is the
high time to must have knowledge of leadership roles and practices that will
allow one to handle the complexity of human-centric organizations and networks.
Therefore, graduating from this program will always help me to secure a job and
boost my career and enlighten many visions to the bright future.
I am currently working in Saudi Arabia which is witnessing socio-economic
shift and my motivation to this specific course is, to understand such
multi-level changes from one socio-technical system to another, involving
co-evolution of technological and societal factors. I have chosen LUT university because this specific course along with this
structure is not being offered by any other institute, other than this the
reputation of LUT in both technological and business professional course is
recognized internationally.
Bearing in mind what, on the one hand, my interests, prospects
and qualifications are, and what, on the other hand your postgraduate study program
offers, I am very enthusiastic and eager to undertake this challenge.
Thank you
very much for considering my request and I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours
sincerely,
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