SHORT CV
Burcu GÜNERİ ÇANGARLI is interested to understand ways for designing and sustaining workplace environments where people can actualise their potential through making positive impact on their own lives, lives of stakeholders, community, region, and the planet. In line with this, through her teaching, research, industry-partnerships, and administrative roles, she tries to fulfil mission of creating positive impact.
Her research evolved around the dark side of organisational behaviour; workplace bullying, power and politics, culture and ethics. During her PhD, she received scholarship from TUBITAK to study on the relationship between workplace bullying and organizational politics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Denise Salin at Hanken University in Helsinki. The findings of her research contributed to theoretical development of the field of workplace bullying and underlined the responsibility of leaders and managers to prevent such behaviours and create fair and nurturing environments. Her research has appeared on leading journals such as Employee Relations, Business Ethics, Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Management Development. She also enjoys interdisciplinary research. She has conducted research on organizational identification, ethics, job involvement and leadership with nurses whose job is highly challenging and stressful. Her work has appeared on pioneering nursing journals such Nursing Ethics, Journal of Advanced Nursing and Journal of Nursing Management. More recently, in line with rising wave of migration, she has developed interest to migration to better understand this complex phenomenon. Her work was published in the Journal of Global Mobility and she have received scholarship from TUBITAK to conduct a research on Turkish migrant entrepreneurs living in the UK.
Rather than defining herself as a quantitative or qualitative researcher, she likes to utilise both quantitative and qualitative methods depending on her research questions. She is still open to learn different and novel methods for conducting research as she believes that it is a way for gaining more insight and contributing more to the creation of knowledge in the academic community. In 2020, she was the co-leader of the project; “Building and Supporting a Research-Informed, Practice-Led Environment for Innovative Entrepreneurship to Flourish” through which a group of researchers, including her, has received training on utilisation of art-based methods in research and trainings. Additionally, she has developed extensive experience in university-industry projects by contributing to preparation of strategic plans, industry reports and providing consultancy services. Since 2023, she has been an active mentor in InoSuit Projects.
She has experience in face to face and online teaching for nearly 20 years. In her teaching, she believes in the power of providing different perspectives that requires interactive and innovative teaching methods such as case studies, discussions based on movies, doing art and drama in the classroom, and playing games. All those provide students opportunities to experience feelings and expectations of managers/employees so that they can understand the foundations and limitations of theories. Utilising these methods, she has designed and taught management, leadership, organisational behaviour topics in our undergraduate and graduate programs as well as in executive education.
In addition to her service in different committees, between 2017 and 2019 I was the Head of the Business Administration Department. Since 2019, she has been the Dean of Business Faculty at IUE.