Staff profile

Gokce Basbug is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management at Durham University Business School. Before joining Durham University, he was an Assistant Professor of Management at Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business in South Korea. He received his Ph.D. from MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA from Istanbul University.

Gokce’s research focuses on work and employment issues. Specifically, he studies how individuals search for jobs, the experience of unemployment, gender segregation in labor markets, and health and safety in organizations. He has published his research in ILR Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, and The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Email: gokce.basbug@durham.ac.uk

Journal Article

• Dossinger, K., Wanberg, C. R., Song, Y., & Basbug, G. (online). Lookism Climate in Organizations: Construct Development and Validation of a Scale. Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063231196555
• Basbug, G., & Sharone, O. (online). Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support. Journal of Career Development, https://doi.org/10.1177/08948453241282975
• Basbug, G., Cavicchi, A., & Silbey, S. S. (2023). Rank Has Its Privileges: Explaining Why Laboratory Safety Is a Persistent Challenge. Journal of Business Ethics, 184(3), 571-587. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05169-z
• van Hooft, E. A. J., Kammeyer-Mueller, J. D., Wanberg, C. R., Kanfer, R., & Basbug, G. (2021). Job search and employment success: A quantitative review and future research agenda. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(5), 674-713. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000675
• Gokce Basbug, & Ofer Sharone. (2017). The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 3(3), 222-244. https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.10
• Wanberg, C., Basbug, G., Van Hooft, E. A., & Samtani, A. (2012). Navigating the Black Hole: Explicating Layers of Job Search Context and Adaptational Responses. Personnel Psychology, 65(4), 887-926. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12005
• Türetgen, I. Ö., Berk, Ö. S., Basbug, G., & Unsal, P. (2012). The Development of the Job Stressor Appraisal Scale as Part of the Job Stress Battery. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 28(2), 147-153. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000103