| School: The Business School |
| Department: Management |
| Position: Senior Lecturer |
| Location: Saigon South campus |
| Email: erhan.atay@rmit.edu.vn |
Dr. Erhan Atay brings over 15 years of international teaching and research experience across the UK, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Turkey. He has taught subjects such as International and Strategic HRM, Leadership, and Organizational Behavior at institutions like Newcastle Business School, RMIT University, and Monash University. With over a decade of consulting experience in Korea, Dr. Atay earned his undergraduate degree from Seoul National University and Masters and Ph.D. in HRM from Kyung Hee University of Korea. He is the co-editor of three academic books and the author of a graduate-level textbook on Strategic HRM. His research focuses on global mobility, expatriation, Southeast Asian HR systems, and strategic management, with 40+ articles published in leading journals.
- Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, Ph.D. in Business Administration, 2005-2010
- Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, Master of Business Administration with Thesis
- Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, B.E. Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, 1997- 1999
- People & Organisations
- HRM in Asia
- Strategic HRM
- Global mobility
- Expatriation
- Skilled Immigration
- Atay, E., Bayraktaroglu, S., & Chew, Y. T. E. (2024). Multi-dimensional adjustment of Eurasian self-initiated expatriates in Korea. Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, 12(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-02-2023-0010
- 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).
- Chew, E.Y.T, Atay E., Bayraktaroglu, S. (2020). Who says female engineers cannot be happy and productive in organisations with a paternalistic culture? Journal of Construction Engineering Management, 146 (6): 05020005. (A*)
- Vu, O. T. K., Alonso, A. D., Tran, T. D., Martens, W., Do, L., Nguyen, T. T., Atay, E. & Akbari, M. (2023). Coffee culture unravelled: exploring the coffee shop experience model in the Vietnamese context. Tourism Recreation Research, 1-19. (A Rank)
- Alonso, A. D., Bressan, A., Kim, O. V. T., Kok, S. K., & Atay, E. (2023). Integrating tradition and innovation within a wine tourism and hospitality experience. International Journal of Tourism Research, 25(1), 169-182. (ABDC List A Rank)
- Ng, D. W. L., Alonso, A. D., Bressan, A., Vu, O. T. K., Tran, T. D., & Atay, E. (2022). Businesses and their community in times of COVID-19: a stakeholder theory approach. European Business Review, Vol. 34 No. 6, 798-818 (Q1)
- Atay, E., Bayraktaroglu, S., & Ilhan, H. (2021). Discriminatory Job Loss and Overcoming Strategies of Turkish Academicians. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 1-3. (Q1)
- Adebanjo, D., Teh, P. L., Ahmed, P. K., Atay, E., & Ractham, P. (2020). Competitive priorities, employee management and development and sustainable manufacturing performance in Asian Organisations. Sustainability, 12(13), 5335. (Q1)
- Bayraktaroglu, S., Atay, E., Ilhan, H. (2020). A Passenger Running West on a Ship Headed East: Positioning Turkish HRM on the Convergence and Divergence Continuum, Management Research Review. (Q1)
- Atay, Erhan & Terpstra-Tong, JLY. (2019). The Determinants of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A Case Study of the Soma Mine Accident in Turkey. Social Responsibility Journal, 16(8), 1433-1452. (Q1)
- Bayraktaroglu, S., Atay, E., & Aras, M. (2022). Employees' perceptions of human resource management: a metaphorical analysis. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 13(4), 350-371.
- Atay, E., Ilhan, H., & Bayraktaroglu, S. (2019). The Turkish Soma Coal Mining Disaster: Antecedents, Consequences, and Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics Education, 16, 231-246.
- HEA Fellowship
- Business Consultant, Caglayan Consulting, Seoul, South Korea 1999-2011
- Board of Director, Asian Journalist Association, AJA, Seoul, Korea
- Volunteer, UNESCO Korea, 2002-2011
- Senior Lecturer, People and Organizations, The Business School, RMIT Vietnam
- Senior Lecturer, Program Manager for HRM (Human Resource Management) Master, HRM and Leadership Program, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
- Senior Lecturer and Senior Program Manager, RMIT University, Vietnam, School of Business and Management, International Business Program
- Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Malaysia Campus, Faculty of Management
- Senior Lecturer, Program Coordinator for Management, IB Program & MIB Research Pathway, Monash University, Malaysia Campus, Faculty of Management
- Assoc. Prof., Interim Dean, Head of Professional Programs, Management, Faculty of Management, Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Part-time Lecturer, Management, Faculty of Management, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
- Board of Director, Asian Journalist Association, AJA, Seoul, Korea
- Business Consultant, Caglayan Consulting, Seoul, South Korea
| Project | Researchers | Funding Period |
| Talent management: Is the deeply rooted paternalism culture in South Korea, Japan and Turkey important to the Millennial workforce? | Elaine Chew Teng, Erhan Atay | 2021 |
| Stereotype Threat, Career Identity and Multi-Dimensional Adjustment | Erhan Atay | 2020 |
| Foreign Workers in Malaysia | Erhan Atay, Jane Tong | 2018 |
| Korean National HR System | Erhan Atay | 2016 August-2016 December |
| A study on Organizational Identity of a newly established university | Erhan Atay, Zehra Topal | 2015 |
| South Korea and Turkey’s Modernization | Erhan Atay, Gokhan Karsan | 2014 |
| Entrepreneurship Program for Vocational High School Students | Yavuz Keceli Erhan Atay Fatih Macit |
2012-2013 |