Hazal K. Alay is an Ph.D., She is working as an Assist. Prof. Dr. in the Management of Health Institutions Program at Batman University. She was working as an Assist. Prof. Dr in the Management Information System Department at İstanbul Esenyurt University between April 2021 and March 2023. She worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Business Administration at Nişantaşı University, Istanbul between 2014 and 2017. She received her Ph.D. in Management and Organization from Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul in 2020. She completed her Ph.D. with the thesis “Awareness of Diversity in Organizations: Evaluation of Individual and organizational outcomes”. She lived in Prague, Czech Republic, to do academic research and study languages in 2022.