International Labor Organization Funded Project

Research on Women’s and Men’s Perceptions and Experiences of Violence and Harassment at Work. Partnered by Özyeğin University.

Our research titled Perceptions and Experiences of Violence and Harassment in the Workplace has been completed in partnership with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Özyeğin University (Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. H. Canan Sümer). Findings are based on data collected from 3007 employees in Istanbul. You can access the detailed research reports in Turkish and English via the following links:

TR:  https://www.ilo.org/tr/publications/yerinde-siddet-ve-taciz-algilari-ve-...

ENG:  https://www.ilo.org/publications/perceptions-and-experiences-workplace-v...

TÜBİTAK 1001 - Project Funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

Workplace Mistreatment from Incivility to Harassment: Outcomes and Intervention Methods from a Cultural Perspective, October 2019–August 2022. Nezaketsizlikten Tacize, İş Yerinde Kötü Muamele: Kültürel Bağlamda Sonuçlar ve Müdahale Yöntemleri. Proje No: 119K363. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. H. Canan Sümer (Özyeğin University, Psychology) Researchers: Prof. Dr. F. Pınar Acar (METU, Business Administration) Associate Prof. Dr. Aslı Göncü-Köse (Çankaya University, Psychology) Assistant Prof. Dr. A. Başak Ok (Ankara University, Psychology) Assistant Prof. Dr. Yonca Toker-Gültaş (METU, Psychology) In collaboration with: Assistant Prof. Dr. Derya Karanfil (Bakırçay University, Psychology) Scholarship students: Meltem Düzgün, MSc. (METU, Psychology) Dilara Çavdar (Özyeğin University, Psychology)

Synopsis:

Forms of workplace mistreatment, such as incivility, mobbing, abusive supervision, discrimination (especially gender discrimination), and sexual harassment have been studied widely in relation to their antecedents and consequences for employees and organizations. In the initial stage of our project, we held focus-group meetings with employees from various cities of Turkey, developed culture-relevant measures of these mistreatment forms, and subjected the new measures to pilot testing. We will further study the consequences of such workplace mistreatment, develop materials for the prevention of mistreatment and organizational interventions, and empirically test the effects of our interventions.