as a result of organizational actions such as downsizing and outsourcing the employment relationship has changed to one in which paternalism has more generally given way to an exchange relationship for the mutual benefit of both parties from a promise of long-their security to a situation where employees have the primary responsibility for their own future and from entitlement to the goal of obtaining opportunities to remain employable As an example the following list was found on a bulletin board of a company going through widespread layoffs