Blowing The Whistle By Gorden Borrie Summary

Some of the most important things we will be confronted with while doing an internship is ethics, responsibility and accountability. Gorden Borrie, in his article, “Blowing the Whistle: Business Ethics and Accountability” helps one to understand the importance between the law and morality and whether or not an organization should be left to self-regulate. In this article there are two examples of agencies that failed in accountability and the consequences were devastating. The first is the Zeebrugge disaster, which claimed the lives of 193 people. The second one was Dorset Canoe tragedy which killed four child. In each of these disaster’s there was a loss of life. However, one was more substantial than that of the other.
In the first disaster Zeebrugge, the company would be prosecuted for corporate manslaughter. Although five people had told management there concerns, the board was never made aware of the issues. The incident would never make it to trail. In the second tragedy was the Dorset Canoe incident in which two instructors warned them about the problems with the canoes. In Dorset canoe tragedy there was a conviction of corporate manslaughter and an individual was
A school counselor walked in. The school had a chain of command that had to be followed. That protocol did not involve calling the authorities. In fact the chain of command had warned the principle of the counselor’s accusations through an e-mail. They told the principle that there was no need to worry. She realized there would be no consequences for the principle following Tulsa Public Schools investigation. In this case she made an ethical decision to expose the principle to the parents of the child. She had decided to resign her post has she knew she would surely be fired for her insubordination after she called the child’s parent three days after the