Her research interests include employee accountability, social factors that impact employee behavior, and legal claiming; the conditions under which employees invoke their legal rights vis-à-vis their employers; and legal issues in human resources management such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. Current projects include a multi-disciplinary study examining employee rights and barriers to employment; gathering of data from a project involving ex-offenders; examining how employers may remove legal and social barriers to employment for persons with disabilities so that they may obtain and retain employment; and co-authoring a paper on the legality and human resources management practicality of pre-employment personality testing.