an Associate Professor, Human Resource Man- agement, in Athabasca University, working at the centre for Innovative Management which focuses on graduate manage- ment programs in business administration. She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Business at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include the areas of down- sizing, restructuring, quality initiatives, business ethics, human rights and legal issues at the workspace. Her work has been published in a variety of academic journals, such as Journal of Business Ethics, Industrial Relations, Inter- national Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Labor Research, and Relations Industrielles