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Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth after Discriminatory Job Loss: The Case of Academics Dismissed after Turkey’s 2016 Coup

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Title
Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth after Discriminatory Job Loss: The Case of Academics Dismissed after Turkey’s 2016 Coup
Abstract
This study is about the impact of discriminatory job loss (DJL) on individual attitudes. It is based on interviews with 36 academics who were inequitably and involuntarily fired, and aggressively and punitively discriminated against. We extend previous research on workplace discrimination by exploring the effects of discriminatory job loss on a skilled workforce and by going beyond the job loss itself to examine coping mechanisms, resilience and post-traumatic growth. We found that gratitude, patience and optimism or pessimism about one’s future and career were leading individual factors in the ability to cope with discriminatory job loss. Such coping mechanisms, and their roles in resilience and post-traumatic growth, were described to us by academics in Turkey and abroad.
Publication
Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations
Volume
78
Issue
1
Pages
23 pages
Date
2023
Journal Abbr
ri
Language
English
ISSN
0034-379X, 1703-8138
Short Title
Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth after Discriminatory Job Loss
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9/13/23, 7:41 PM
Extra
Publisher: Département des relations industrielles de l’Université Laval
Citation
Atay, E., & Bayraktaroglu, S. (2023). Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth after Discriminatory Job Loss: The Case of Academics Dismissed after Turkey’s 2016 Coup. Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 78(1), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.7202/1101315ar