Mustafa Özbilgin
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Mustafa Özbilgin
@ozbilgin.bsky.social

Professor of Organisational Behaviour, researching equality, diversity, inclusion and social justice at work. Brunel University of London. All my publications are on researchgate.net in open access.

Business 46%
Political science 20%

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Equality Research
Equality Research That Shapes Institutions, Not Just Debates Welcome to this channel. Here I share research that examines power, inequality, institutions, and the politics of recognition in workplac...
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How to deal with the survey-taking AI agents that threaten to upend social science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to deal with the survey-taking AI agents that threaten to upend social science
Researchers need new bot-detection strategies that exploit the limits of human reasoning rather than AI weaknesses.
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What an entanglement! It is really worrying that we have not yet seen any prosecutions based on evidence from the files.
Our latest co-authored chapter with @ozbilgin.bsky.social and Dilek Torunoğlu Tinay, Incels at Work: Misogyny as Identity, Labels and Normative Structures of Work, is now published.
Toxic experts in longevity business: A multilevel relational framing of emergence - @aybikemergen.bsky.social, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Çağla Güven, Cihat Erbil,
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social, 2026, Organization

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Disaster governance and inequality-responsive accounting: Grenfell and Grand Kartal fires in times of institutional neglect, spatial justice and the evasion of accountability -
@ozbilgin.bsky.social, @cihat.bsky.social, Raffaella Valsecchi @societyandspace.bsky.social

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Disaster governance and inequality-responsive accounting: Grenfell and Grand Kartal fires in times of institutional neglect, spatial justice and the evasion of accountability - Mustafa F Özbilgin, Cih...
Infrastructures are never neutral; they reflect social priorities, institutional silences, and unequal entitlements to safety. This article explores how disaste...
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Call for papers: Critical HRM and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

@ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt, Milena and I inviting submissions that critically examine HRM’s role in power and inequality.
https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pape…
Our new paper has been accepted!

Comparing the Grenfell Tower fire (UK) and the Grand Kartal Hotel fire (Turkey), @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Raffaella and I propose Inequality-Responsive Accounting to re-centre justice in disaster governance and accountability

Read it here: shorturl.at/NAYpw
Our report is online: A scoping survey of EDI interventions in the energy sector in the UK strathprints.strath.ac.uk/94695/

UK energy sector EDI efforts show strong intent but uneven delivery; @ozbilgin.bsky.social and I call for accountable, collaborative, evidence-driven structural reform.
A scoping survey of EDI interventions in the energy sector in the UK - Strathprints
strathprints.strath.ac.uk
Our paper, Red Pill Leadership Behaviours and Discourse Ethics, is now online in the Journal of Business Ethics: rdcu.be/eOkQX

@ozbilgin.bsky.social, @aybikemergen.bsky.social
Our recent paper in JBE!

@ozbilgin.bsky.social, @aybikemergen.bsky.social and I conceptualise #RedPill leadership (a toxic, male-supremacist ideology opposing equality) as a growing threat to #EthicalLeadership and #Inclusion at work.

Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our recent paper has been accepted by Human Resource Management Journal. In this paper, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Milena, Nur, and I propose an HR-led co-design model with neurodivergent employees to move beyond tokenism towards #neuroinclusion.

Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our paper has been accepted by Organization. We show how the longevity sector’s incentives breed toxic experts, and propose a multilevel plan to rebuild trust.

@aybikemergen.bsky.social, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Cagla Guven, and @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

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Mass resignation of board members from the journal, Gender Work and Organization, and the academic petition against the journal had unintended consequences. We addressed these in our paper.

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How does leadership in #EDI evolve during the global #altright turn? We are running a short survey (10 mins) for EDI leaders worldwide.

Take part here: forms.gle/P4Fntg9zAX59...

#EDI #Leadership #Inclusion #Diversity #SocialResearch #HR #HRLeaders #HRSurvey #HRCommunity

@ozbilgin.bsky.social
If you're still buying wizard book shit, you are no friend to the trans community. Here's the wizard book bigot inciting harassment against innocent people to her 14 million followers on the nazi app.

And no, they can't Always Tell.
Our most recent chapter (co-authored with @ozbilgin.bsky.social), Board Diversity as Institutional Competence: Recognition and Misrecognition of Diversity Claims, is out now!

You can read it here: researchgate.net/publication/...

#EDI #BoardDiversity #Competence #HR #HRM
Our call for papers (with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt April, and Milena Tekeste):

Critical Human Resource Management and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

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#HRM #PersonnelReview
Critical Human Resource Management and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy
A critical exploration of HRM’s role in shaping inequality, governance, and resistance, featuring evidence-based alternatives that centre justice, voice, and inclusive transformation.
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Please help us with our survey on EDI practices today.
How does leadership in #EDI evolve during the global #altright turn? We are running a short survey (10 mins) for EDI leaders worldwide.

Take part here: forms.gle/P4Fntg9zAX59...

#EDI #Leadership #Inclusion #Diversity #SocialResearch #HR #HRLeaders #HRSurvey #HRCommunity

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Mustafa F. Özbilgin (@ozbilgin.bsky.social) and I are inviting contributions for a special issue on Anti-Woke Organising and Resistance to EDI. We look forward to your papers on this significant topic.

Deadline: 30 June 2025

#CallForPapers #Woke #EDI

Call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...
Our most recent article (co-authored with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Dimitria Groutsis, @profjv.bsky.social) has been accepted by Population, Space and Place!

We theorise how stakeholder power and market logic shape the (de)humanisation of refugee labour.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New Chapter Out: AI, Bias and Marginalisation (co-authored with Aybike Mergen and Nergiz Çetin Kılıç), titled “Artificial Intelligence and Bias Towards Marginalized Groups: Theoretical Roots and Challenges.” is in the volume AI and Diversity in a Datafied World of Work

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Don’t Judge a Leader by Their Reluctance (w/ Bahar Moraligil, Zeynep Aycan, @ozbilgin.bsky.social)
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Our two papers are out in the latest issue of
@hrmjournal.bsky.social

Neuronormativity as Ignorant Design in HRM (w/ @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Nur Gündoğdu)

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If merit is so important as you say now, why are there so many white cis het incompetent and immature men in positions of power and authority screwing up what people with merit created? Just curious.

Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their job. apnews.com/article/musk...
Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade
Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or r...
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UK: Police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with crime predicting tech – new report www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
UK: Police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with crime predicting tech – new report
Amnesty’s new report ‘Automated Racism’ reveals dangerous discrimination in police prediction tools
www.amnesty.org.uk