The misconduct may be classified in so many ways; for eg:, any violation of a law, rules and regulations, or a threat to interest of the Public ,like any fraud, any health and safety violations, and corruption. Whistle blowers can make the allegations internally
Whistle blowing refers to the unauthorized disclosure of the unethical, illegal and corrupt practices by an employee to protect the public interest. The concept whistle blowing has taken an important stand in the competitive world both in public and private sector.
There are 3 conditions that must hold for whistle blowing to be morally permissible, and 2 other conditions that must hold for it to be morally obligatory.
Whistle Blowing Conditions:
1. The firm is Making Some serious harm to the public Interest that can be mediated both by its product and its policy, whether an innocent who is basically the user of its product, or general …show more content…
If the senior level takes no further action, the employee/individual should submit the matter to the high level authorities and if possible to the directors also.
4. Whistle-blower must have a proper and strong evidence to justify his case and convince the high level authorities or to the general public that the Company product or policy makes a serious threat to the product user and to the general public.
5. The employee or any individual must understand that the changes may be brought by him going to the public. The Probability of successful must be worth of high risk one and danger to which one is exposed.
Whistle blowing is a confidential concern by an individual or an employee of any concern in the workplace relating to a perceived wrong doing. The firm considers these are the wrong doing things,
• General malpractice – such as immoral, unethical conduct or illegal.
• misconduct
• Infractions of the various codes.
• Infractions of the Company independence policies.
• Infractions of audit and other regulations. and
• Infractions of the various codes of conduct of all relevant professional