Belgin Okay-Somerville
Biographic Data
| ID | 1501959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Belgin Okay-Somerville |
| GIVEN NAMES | Belgin |
| FAMILY NAME | Okay-Somerville |
| SIGNATURE | OKAY-SOMERVILLE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4314-674X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Contingency Effects of Five Sustainable Development Goals (Big Five SDGs )
The emergence of the global sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the growing awareness of the economic, environmental, and social benefits of committing to sustainable development have led many organizations to consider how they can effectively contribute to this agenda. Drawing on institutional theory, this study seeks to advance this goal by examining in a multinational context how a socially responsible human resource management (SR‐HRM) a…
Focused for Some, Exploratory for Others
This article examines the role of student job search strategies that differ in goal-directedness (focused, exploratory, and haphazard) in achieving successful university-to-work transitions (i.e., employment in jobs with high skill use/development and qualification–job match). The relationship between job search and employment outcomes is considered in two labor market contexts—high or low ambiguity—which are represented by the comparison between…
Disentangling the impact of social disadvantage on ‘becoming employable’
This article aims to examine alternative explanations of social disadvantage on the university-to-work transition experiences of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students. ‘Becoming employable’ during the university-to-work transition is reflected in three ways: students’ cognition/patterns of thinking (i.e. perceived employability); affect/emotion (i.e. anxiety); and career-related behaviour (i.e. job search and networking…
Position, possession or process? Understanding objective and subjective employability during university-to-work transitions
This article aims to understand predictors of objective (i.e. job offers, employment status and employment quality) and subjective (i.e. perceived) graduate employability during university-to-work transitions. Using survey data from two cohorts of graduates in the UK (N = 293), it contrasts three competing theoretical approaches to employability: position (based on social background), possession (of human capital) and process (of career self-mana…
Shades of grey
This article examines job quality for university graduates employed in intermediately skilled (emerging) and traditional graduate occupations. Skills policies largely assume that increasing the supply of skilled labour generates sufficient demand in terms of appropriate jobs, but job quality in emerging occupations and the effects on graduates’ attitudes and well-being have yet to be established. The role of job quality (defined in terms of skill…
Shades of grey
This article examines job quality for university graduates employed in intermediately skilled (emerging) and traditional graduate occupations. Skills policies largely assume that increasing the supply of skilled labour generates sufficient demand in terms of appropriate jobs, but job quality in emerging occupations and the effects on graduates’ attitudes and well-being have yet to be established. The role of job quality (defined in terms of skill…
Position, possession or process? Understanding objective and subjective employability during university-to-work transitions
This article aims to understand predictors of objective (i.e. job offers, employment status and employment quality) and subjective (i.e. perceived) graduate employability during university-to-work transitions. Using survey data from two cohorts of graduates in the UK (N = 293), it contrasts three competing theoretical approaches to employability: position (based on social background), possession (of human capital) and process (of career self-mana…
Shades of grey
This article examines job quality for university graduates employed in intermediately skilled (emerging) and traditional graduate occupations. Skills policies largely assume that increasing the supply of skilled labour generates sufficient demand in terms of appropriate jobs, but job quality in emerging occupations and the effects on graduates’ attitudes and well-being have yet to be established. The role of job quality (defined in terms of skill…
Position, possession or process? Understanding objective and subjective employability during university-to-work transitions
This article aims to understand predictors of objective (i.e. job offers, employment status and employment quality) and subjective (i.e. perceived) graduate employability during university-to-work transitions. Using survey data from two cohorts of graduates in the UK (N = 293), it contrasts three competing theoretical approaches to employability: position (based on social background), possession (of human capital) and process (of career self-mana…
Focused for Some, Exploratory for Others
This article examines the role of student job search strategies that differ in goal-directedness (focused, exploratory, and haphazard) in achieving successful university-to-work transitions (i.e., employment in jobs with high skill use/development and qualification–job match). The relationship between job search and employment outcomes is considered in two labor market contexts—high or low ambiguity—which are represented by the comparison between…
Disentangling the impact of social disadvantage on ‘becoming employable’
This article aims to examine alternative explanations of social disadvantage on the university-to-work transition experiences of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students. ‘Becoming employable’ during the university-to-work transition is reflected in three ways: students’ cognition/patterns of thinking (i.e. perceived employability); affect/emotion (i.e. anxiety); and career-related behaviour (i.e. job search and networking…
The Contingency Effects of Five Sustainable Development Goals (Big Five SDGs )
The emergence of the global sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the growing awareness of the economic, environmental, and social benefits of committing to sustainable development have led many organizations to consider how they can effectively contribute to this agenda. Drawing on institutional theory, this study seeks to advance this goal by examining in a multinational context how a socially responsible human resource management (SR‐HRM) a…
Higher Education and Employability (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)