Dr Belgin Okay-Somerville

Senior Lecturer (Management)

telephone: 014133 2706
email: Belgin.Okay-Somerville@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Belgin joined the Adam Smith Business School as Lecturer in Human Resource Management in January 2017. Prior to this appointment, she took lectureship posts in Stirling Management School (2014 - 2017) and the University of Aberdeen Business School (2012 - 2014). Belgin is a work psychologist by training and received a BSc Psychology at the University of Nottingham, and an MA Industrial/Organisational Psychology at Koc University in Turkey. Her teaching and research covers various areas of work and vocational psychology and human resource management.

Belgin's main research interests centre around understanding individuals (in particular university graduates) experience of work and career progression. Her PhD research (University of Strathclyde, 2013) aimed to understand contemporary graduate careers and examined job quality in graduate labour market, the role of career self-management for securing good first jobs upon graduation and the impact of early underemployment on later career progression.

Research interests

Belgin is a member of the Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

Youth employment
Graduate labour market
University-to-work transitions
Graduate/student wellbeing
Employability
Career development/mobility/transition
Labour market entry
Job search and work-related wellbeing
Job quality and skills (under)utilisation
Underemployment/overqualification
Strategic human resource management

Publications

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Number of items: 43.

2025

Turek, D. et al. (2025) Does the relationship between sustainable human resource management and organizational identification vary by culture? Evidence from 35 countries based on GLOBE framework. Central European Management Journal, (doi: 10.1108/CEMJ-04-2024-0121) (Early Online Publication)

Wojtczuk-Turek, Agnieszka, Edgar, Fiona, Podgorodnichenko, Nataliya, Turek, Dariusz, Järlström, Maria, Jurek, Pawel, Klein, Howard J. and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2025) The contingency effects of five sustainable development goals (big five SDGs): a cross-national study of socially responsible HRM and well-being. Sustainable Development, (doi: 10.1002/sd.3525) (Early Online Publication)

Arman, Gamze, Oğuz Çevik, Melis and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2025) Psychological mechanisms of commuting: a cognitive dissonance approach to intercontinental commuting discomfort in Istanbul. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 195, 104448. (doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2025.104448)

2024

Knight, Elizabeth and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (Eds.) (2024) Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing - An Enquiry across National Education Systems Based on Longitudinal Data. Series: International study of city youth education. Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Switzerland. ISBN 9783031682285

Knight, E. and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) Setting the context on Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing. In: Knight, E. and Okay-Somerville, B. (eds.) Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing - An Enquiry across National Education Systems Based on Longitudinal Data. Series: International study of city youth education (5). Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Switzerland, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9783031682285 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-68229-2_1)

Nicoll, Jennifer Craik, Doyle, Lesley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-6456 and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) The occupational aspirations and wellbeing of young people in the UK. In: Knight, E. and Okay-Somerville, B. (eds.) Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing - An Enquiry across National Education Systems Based on Longitudinal Data. Series: International study of city youth education (5). Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Switzerland, pp. 89-114. ISBN 9783031682285 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-68229-2_5)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) Theoretical contributions about Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing. In: Knight, E. and Okay-Somerville, B. (eds.) Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing - An Enquiry across National Education Systems Based on Longitudinal Data. Series: International study of city youth education (5). Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Switzerland, pp. 201-218. ISBN 9783031682285 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-68229-2_10)

Hurrell, Scott A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6956-7097, Anderson, Pauline, Luchinskaya, Daria, Scholarios, Dora and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) ‘The best laid plans’: reflexivity, employability and early employment outcomes when graduating in a pandemic. Research in the Sociology of Work, 37, (Accepted for Publication)

Atilla-Bal, Esra and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) The soft skills perception gap between employers and young people: findings from Turkey. Journal of East European Management Studies, 29(3), pp. 418-439. (doi: 10.5771/0949-6181-2024-3-418)

Wojtczuk‐Turek, A. et al. (2024) Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross‐cultural perspective from 54 countries. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 31(5), pp. 4910-4932. (doi: 10.1002/csr.2815)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Scholarios, Dora, Luchinskaya, Daria, Anderson, Pauline and Hurrell, Scott (2024) Financial stress and sustainable start to graduate careers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1), (doi: 10.5465/amproc.2024.21561abstract)

Rus, Diana and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) Editorial. EWOP in Practice, 18(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.21825/ewopinpractice.89657)

Rus, Diana and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) Editorial. EWOP In Practice, 18(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.21825/ewopinpractice.90425)

2023

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2023) Chance events in graduate career success: a chaos theory of careers perspective. In: Donald, William E. (ed.) Handbook of Research on Sustainable Career Ecosystems for University Students and Graduates'. IGI Global: Hershey, PA, pp. 300-318. ISBN 9781668474426 (doi: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7442-6.ch016)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2023) Graduate recruitment. In: Johnstone, Stewart, Rodriguez, Jenny K. and Wilkinson, Adrian (eds.) Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management. Edward Edgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 157-159. ISBN 9781800378834 (doi: 10.4337/9781800378841.G.13)

Rus, Diana, Carter, Angela and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2023) Editorial. EWOP In Practice, 17(2), pp. 92-94. (doi: 10.21825/ewopinpractice.89657)

2022

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Luchinskaya, Daria, Anderson, Pauline, Hurrell, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6956-7097 and Scholarios, Dora (2022) Graduate employability during the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Broadley, Tania, Cai, Yuzhuo, Firth, Miriam, Hunt, Emma and Neugebauer, John (eds.) SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability. SAGE Publications: London ; Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 414-432. ISBN 9781529771848 (doi: 10.4135/9781529791082)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Selenko, Eva and Searle, Rosalind ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6052-7627 (2022) Work and organisational issues affecting young workers. In: Braddick, Oliver (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780190236557 (doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.863)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Allison, I., Luchinskaya, D. and Scholarios, D. (2022) Disentangling the impact of social disadvantage on ‘becoming employable’: evidence from STEM student university-to-work transitions. Studies in Higher Education, 47(3), pp. 545-559. (doi: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1767052)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2022) Focused for some, exploratory for others: job search strategies and successful university-to-work transitions in the context of labour market ambiguity. Journal of Career Development, 49(1), pp. 126-143. (doi: 10.1177/08948453211016058)

2021

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2021) What can human resource management tell us about sustainable youth employment? EAWOP In Practice, 15(3), pp. 193-206. (doi: 10.21825/ewopinpractice.87153)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Carter, Angela (2021) Special issue on young people’s work, employment and careers. EAWOP in Practice, 15(2), pp. 81-87. (doi: 10.21825/ewopinpractice.87143)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Arman, Gamze (2021) Senior executive women’s views on female solidarity: the role of perceived gender salience. In: Marques, Joan (ed.) Exploring Gender at Work: Multiple Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 339-359. ISBN 9783030643188 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-64319-5)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Arman, Gamze (2021) Senior executive women's views on female solidarity: The role of perceived gender salience. In: Marques, Joan (ed.) Exploring Gender at Work: Multiple Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 339-359. ISBN 9783030643195 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-64319-5_18)

2020

Blokker, R. et al. (2020) Broadening our sight on youth employment. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1), p. 19179. (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2020.19179symposium)

2019

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Scholarios, Dora and Sosu, Edward (2019) Young workers’ job satisfaction in Europe. In: Furåker, Bengt and Håkansson, Kristina (eds.) Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings. Series: Routledge studies in management, organizations and society. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 193-218. ISBN 9780815383291

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2019) A multilevel examination of skills‐oriented human resource management and perceived skill utilization during recession: implications for the well‐being of all workers. Human Resource Management, 58(2), pp. 139-154. (doi: 10.1002/hrm.21941)

2018

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Dudau, Adina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Du, Minmin, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Morgan-Thomas, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2228-6463 (2018) Adam Smith Cared and We Should Too: Our Duty of Care for Student Wellbeing and Resilience. Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 10-14 Aug 2018.

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2018) Can Career Self-management Overcome Labour Market Disadvantage for Non-professional Degree Graduates? In: Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, 10-14 Aug 2018, (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.13385symposium)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Allison, Ian, Scholarios, Dora and Caira, Tom (2018) Demographic Influences in the Strategies Used to Support the Transition to Employment in STEM. Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference: Making Connections, Innovating and Sharing Pedagogy, Hull, UK, 28-29 Jun 2018.

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2018) The Role of Career Self-management During University-to-work Transitions. Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2018, Sheffield, UK, 19-21 Jun 2018.

Taheri, Babak, Maxwell Stuart, Rebecca and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2018) Perceived Employability in Non-Western Context: The Role of Core Self-evaluations and Career Self-management. Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2018, Sheffield, UK, 19-21 Jun 2018.

2017

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2017) The Role of Enriched Job Design for Improving Work-related Attitudes of the Underemployed. European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM 2017), Glasgow, UK, 21-24 Jun 2017. (Unpublished)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2017) Emotional Barriers to Job Search Success: Job Search Anxiety during University-to-Work Transitions. In: Academy of Management Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, 04-18 Aug 2017, pp. 15-23. (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2017.12805symposium)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2017) Job Search Anxiety and Perceived Barriers to Labour Market Entry. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 17-20 May 2017.

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2017) Position, possession or process? Understanding objective and subjective employability during university-to-work transitions. Studies in Higher Education, 42(7), pp. 1275-1291. (doi: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1091813)

2016

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2016) Configurational Effects of Pre-Recession High Performance Work Practices on Post-Recession Performance in the UK Service Sector. In: BAM 2016: Thriving in Turbulent Times, Newcastle, UK, 06-08 Sep 2016,

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2016) High Performance Management and Organisational Performance in the Service Sector: A Lagged-Effect and Skills-Based Contingency Approach. Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2016, Sheffield, UK, 21-23 June.

2015

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2015) Career self-management, perceived employability and employment success during university-to-work transitions: A Social Cognitive Career Theory perspective. Zarzadzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi = Human Resource Management, 107(6), pp. 33-60.

2014

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2014) Career Exploration and Employment Success: a Function of Perceived Contextual Barriers? Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference 2014, Honolulu, HI, USA, 15-17 May 2014. (Unpublished)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2014) Coping with career boundaries and boundary-crossing in the graduate labour market. Career Development International, 19(6), 668 -682. (doi: 10.1108/CDI-12-2013-0144)

2013

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2013) Shades of grey: Understanding job quality in emerging graduate occupations. Human Relations, 66(4), pp. 555-585. (doi: 10.1177/0018726712465094)

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X and Scholarios, Dora (2013) A 'boundary-friendly' approach to understanding the drivers of graduate employability. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013(1), p. 15835. (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2013.15835abstract)

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Articles

Rus, Diana and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) Editorial. EWOP in Practice, 18(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.21825/ewopinpractice.89657)

Rus, Diana and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2024) Editorial. EWOP In Practice, 18(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.21825/ewopinpractice.90425)

Rus, Diana, Carter, Angela and Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X (2023) Editorial. EWOP In Practice, 17(2), pp. 92-94. (doi: 10.21825/ewopinpractice.89657)

Blokker, R. et al. (2020) Broadening our sight on youth employment. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1), p. 19179. (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2020.19179symposium)

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Grants

2021 COVID Impact Mitigation Fund, University of Glasgow (£7,986.8, Principal investigator)
2021 College Research Fund, University of Glasgow (£1,500, Principal investigator)
2020 European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (€3581, Principal investigator), Small Group Meeting on Young people’s work, employment and careers
2020 ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (£4542.00, Principal investigator) Improving the Quality of Youth Employment: Lessons from Work Psychology Research
2019 Radboud-Glasgow Collaboration Fund, Short-term staff mobility, £1520
2017 ESRC Training Bursary (2017)
2014 British Academy Small Research Grant (lead applicant): University-to-work transitions: the role of career self-management in graduate employability and employment success, Co-applicant: Professor Dora Scholarios (University of Strathclyde), July 2014 - August 2017.
2014 Principal’s Excellence Fund, University of Aberdeen
2013 ESRC Training Bursary

Supervision

Belgin is interested in supervising PhD projects focusing on work psychology and strategic human resource management, covering the following:

Graduate labour market
University-to-work transitions
Graduate/student wellbeing
Employability
Career development/mobility/transition
Labour market entry
Job search and work-related wellbeing
Job quality and skills (under)utilisation
Underemployment/overqualification
Strategic human resource management

Current supervision

Craik Nicoll, Jennifer
Determinants and impact of wellbeing during university
Hilmy, Mara
Zooming into Organisational Socialisation
Kamal, Novika
Algoactivism among Platform Workers: An Attribution Theory Approach

Teaching

Belgin’s teaching spans various aspects of strategic human resource management, organisational behaviour, work psychology and vocational psychology.

Additional information

Belgin's professional affiliations include:

Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
Recognising Excellence in Teaching Fellow, University of Glasgow
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Full member of European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
Member of Academy of Management Careers Division
Member of Academy of Management Organisational Behaviour Division
Member of Academy of Management Human Resources Division

Belgin's current roles within University of Glasgow include:

Director of Internationalisation, Adam Smith Business School
Athena Swan Student Subgroup Lead
Member of University of Glasgow Senate

Belgin's external roles include:

External examiner, University of Edinburgh, MSc HRM and IHRM
Member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College
Associate editor, EAWOP In Practice
Young employment lead, EAWOP Impact Incubator
Guest editor, EAWOP In Practice, Special Issue on Youth Employment (2020/21)
Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Out-going Committee Co-chair (2020/21)
Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Committee Co-chair (2020/21)
Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Programme Co-chair (2019/20)
EAWOP Advisory Committee
Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Communications Co-Chair (2018/19)
Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Representative-at-Large (2017/18)
KU Leuven Research Council Expert Reviewer (2016)
Business and Management Pathway Representative for University of Aberdeen: ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (2013/14)
Associate editor, Europe’s Journal of Psychology (since 2009)

Belgin has received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Acadamy of Management Careers Division in 2013, 2013, 2017 and 2020.

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