Call for papers: Critical HRM and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa... @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt, Milena and I inviting submissions that critically examine HRM’s role in power and inequality.

Our new paper has been accepted! Comparing the Grenfell Tower fire (UK) and the Grand Kartal Hotel fire (Turkey), @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Raffaella and I propose Inequality-Responsive Accounting to re-centre justice in disaster governance and accountability Read it here: shorturl.at/NAYpw

Our report is online: A scoping survey of EDI interventions in the energy sector in the UK strathprints.strath.ac.uk/94695/ UK energy sector EDI efforts show strong intent but uneven delivery; @ozbilgin.bsky.social and I call for accountable, collaborative, evidence-driven structural reform.

Our paper, Red Pill Leadership Behaviours and Discourse Ethics, is now online in the Journal of Business Ethics: rdcu.be/eOkQX @ozbilgin.bsky.social, @aybikemergen.bsky.social

Our recent paper in JBE! @ozbilgin.bsky.social, @aybikemergen.bsky.social and I conceptualise #RedPill leadership (a toxic, male-supremacist ideology opposing equality) as a growing threat to #EthicalLeadership and #Inclusion at work. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our recent paper has been accepted by Human Resource Management Journal. In this paper, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Milena, Nur, and I propose an HR-led co-design model with neurodivergent employees to move beyond tokenism towards #neuroinclusion. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our paper has been accepted by Organization. We show how the longevity sector’s incentives breed toxic experts, and propose a multilevel plan to rebuild trust. @aybikemergen.bsky.social, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Cagla Guven, and @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our most recent chapter (co-authored with @ozbilgin.bsky.social), Board Diversity as Institutional Competence: Recognition and Misrecognition of Diversity Claims, is out now! You can read it here: researchgate.net/publication/... #EDI #BoardDiversity #Competence #HR #HRM

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

Our call for papers (with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt April, and Milena Tekeste): Critical Human Resource Management and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa... @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social #HRM #PersonnelReview

Please help us with our survey on EDI practices today.

Mustafa F. Özbilgin (@ozbilgin.bsky.social) and I are inviting contributions for a special issue on Anti-Woke Organising and Resistance to EDI. We look forward to your papers on this significant topic. Deadline: 30 June 2025 #CallForPapers #Woke #EDI Call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

Our most recent article (co-authored with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Dimitria Groutsis, @profjv.bsky.social) has been accepted by Population, Space and Place! We theorise how stakeholder power and market logic shape the (de)humanisation of refugee labour. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New Chapter Out: AI, Bias and Marginalisation (co-authored with Aybike Mergen and Nergiz Çetin Kılıç), titled “Artificial Intelligence and Bias Towards Marginalized Groups: Theoretical Roots and Challenges.” is in the volume AI and Diversity in a Datafied World of Work lnkd.in/daGiMM95

Don’t Judge a Leader by Their Reluctance (w/ Bahar Moraligil, Zeynep Aycan, @ozbilgin.bsky.social) researchgate.net/publication/...

Our two papers are out in the latest issue of @hrmjournal.bsky.social Neuronormativity as Ignorant Design in HRM (w/ @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Nur Gündoğdu) researchgate.net/publication/...

Unwise news from AACSB www.ft.com/content/5551...

If merit is so important as you say now, why are there so many white cis het incompetent and immature men in positions of power and authority screwing up what people with merit created? Just curious.

Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their job. apnews.com/article/musk...

Dutch limit English language degrees monitor.icef.com/2024/10/dutc...

UK: Police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with crime predicting tech – new report www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Is there a DEI intervention that can get white heterosexual middle class men to do actual work?

The duo managed to stigmatize old and neurodivergent people, just by being themselves. Let’s not blame their demography for who they actually are: two fascists spiralling out of control with hate.

I have been studying equality for 30 years. Although it may not have happened for the right reasons, equality has finally become a central focus of state policies. We need new theories to address and counteract the unwise backlash, and setbacks against equality initiatives across all sectors.

🎓 New Research on Academic Diasporas 📖 Our latest paper, Formation of a Fragmented Academic Diaspora: A Study of Scholars from Turkey in the Higher Education Sector in Britain, is now out in International Migration. Co-authored with @harunyildiz.bsky.social , Cihat Erbil, and Sercan Hamza Bağlama.

Everyone except “essential personnel” fired at USAID as of Midnight this morning.

Overfinancialisation is an anti-cultural weapon in the hands of rich academic managers: The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters

I am receiving press release for cash deals every day for many years now. I am deleting them rapidly and reporting them as scam. I am sure that I am not the only one suffering these scams. What do you do?

🚨 DEI Leaders, We Need Your Insights! 🚨 We're researching how DEI leaders navigate challenges facing rising alt-right movements. Your voice matters! 📝 Take our short survey & help shape the future of inclusion. 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/1GIw... #DEI #Inclusion #Leadership

New book on DEI of everything

Our book, Research Handbook on Global Diversity Management, co-edited with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, is finally out now. @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Ekonomiyi batırdıkça LGBT+’yi gündem yapıyorlar. Aşırı komik. 🤡

There are dual pathways to people management: one through competencies and another by privilege of sorts. EDI interventions are there to support the competence and evidence based route. The current backlash against EDI and woke (social justice) arguments supports privileged pathway. Know your side!

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Kime göre liyakat? Akademik podcast’a konuk oldum youtube.com/watch?v=sHaH...

Is there an end to international political impunity and delinquency? Anyone can say or do anything right now.

Which social science journals are here on Bluesky?

Incels now have a political party!

I witnessed banning of calculators lest that they replace manual calculations. They feared computers ending handwriting. They resisted apps for data analysis. Now the stupid fear artificial intelligence replacing humans. The problem is misplaced. Uneven ownership/income structures is the problem.

Why is Critical Social Science essential? It challenges power, drives social justice, and creates transformative knowledge. #SocialJustice #CriticalThinking

Academic silencing isn’t just a trend—it’s a crisis. Collaborative innovation offers a way to resist and rebuild. #AcademicSilencing #Collaboration

Critical Social Science is under attack. Deinstitutionalization, disciplinary closure, and populist backlash threaten academic freedom. It’s time to fight back. #CriticalSocialScience #AcademicFreedom

Our paper, Silencing Mechanisms in Academia, co-authored with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, has been accepted by Administrative Sciences. We explore collaborative strategies to resist the silencing of critical social science in academia. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Research Handbook on Global Diversity Management is coming January 2025! Co-edited by @ozbilgin.bsky.social and me. Explores global diversity and workplace inclusion. Hope to inspire scholars and leaders worldwide. @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The @psychologytoday.com featured our paper on the mass resignation of the editorial board of Gender Work and Organization journal. www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/mind... Our paper is here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... What are your views on the impact of academic protests?

Beneficiaries of racism: - it is not racist to say not to migration. - it is not racist to demand best for own people - it is not racist to keep the jobs for our own people - it is not racist to deny visas to students from poorer countries - endless “it is not racist to” statements of racism. 😂

Submit your papers to our special issue: Addressing Gender Inequality in Healthcare Leadership: A Path to Enhanced Patient Outcomes in Frontiers in Public Health and Frontiers in Psychology www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Dim witted populist news media is trying their best to denigrate the meaning and purpose of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

2024 was the most successful year of my career so far in terms of researching, writing, giving talks and publishing. I am so grateful to my coauthors, students, co-investigators and colleagues for making 2024 a year full of learning and sharing. I am looking forward to the 2025.