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- MakaleAçık Erişim2026Scopus SJRQ1Nurses’ Workplace Discrimination Experiences and Their Reflections on Career Development: A Qualitative Study
Koroglu Kaba, Nagihan; Apaydin, Emine; Kulakaç, Nurşen
Aim: This study was conducted to examine how nurses experience discriminatory behaviors in the workplace and how these experiences are reflected in their career development. Background: Although discrimination constitutes a significant challenge in nurses’ professional lives, qualitative research examining how these experiences influence their career development processes remains limited. Methods: This phenomenological study was conducted with nurses working in a public hospital in Turkey. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with 21 nurses during the study. Participants were selected from various clinical settings through purposive sampling. Data were analyzed using Colaizzi's seven-step content analysis method. Ethics committee approval was obtained for this study. The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research checklist guided the study reporting. Results: Five main themes with seven subthemes emerged: (1) Discrimination Experiences (types of discrimination, sources of discrimination, emotions/feelings), (2) Reporting Behavior (decision and consequences of reporting, reasons for not reporting), (3) Impact of Discrimination on Career Development (supportive effect, hindering effect), (4) Coping Strategies, and (5) Suggestions for Preventing Discrimination. Discussion: These themes highlight that discrimination is a multidimensional phenomenon and that holistic approaches must be developed at emotional, structural, professional, and institutional levels to cope with it. Conclusion: For some nurses, discrimination acts as a transformative process that supports career development, while for others, it represents a significant barrier to professional advancement. Implications for Nursing/Nursing Policy: The findings highlight the need to strengthen reporting mechanisms, establish a supportive work culture, and implement inclusive institutional policies that promote career development.
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İncele - Kitap BölümüYalnız künye2022Discrimination in the Employment Process
Yurttas, Süleyman
Discrimination is a phenomenon that feeds on attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes, embodies itself with behaviors, and spreads to the whole of daily life. When business life and the recruitment process in particular are considered as a part of daily life, it can be said that it is “normal” to see discrimination practices here as well. Even in a very simple news search on the Internet, it is possible to see the problems experienced by individuals who are discriminated against in the recruitment process due to their age, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation, hometown or even pregnancy. This phenomenon, which is inevitably encountered in Turkey, also manifests itself in institutionalized companies. 900 thousand people are employed in the organized food retail market throughout Turkey. Employment is increasing by around 20 thousand every year (www.dunya.com). Chain stores such as A101, BIM and Sok operating in Turkey provide considerable employment in the organized food retail market. These companies, which increase their employment with their market shares, carry out their recruitment processes through regional managers. This shows that the discrimination practices that appear in recruitment have individual sources and that the attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes of the responsible person are effective. The aforementioned chain stores, which have great power in the Turkish market, increase the number employed day by day, and this situation also causes the discrimination potential to grow in the recruitment processes. Examining the recruitment processes carried out in these chain stores and revealing the discrimination practices will be beneficial in terms of both identifying the existing problems and taking the necessary measures to prevent discrimination. The aim of this study is to reveal the discrimination practices seen in the recruitment processes in chain stores. In the research, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the regional managers who are responsible for recruitment in the relevant chain store markets. In addition, the relevant literature has been included in order to reveal the relationship between recruitment processes and discrimination, and information about the recruitment processes of chain stores has been shared.