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:
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Normative theory and whistle-blowing Introduction Whistle-blowing in this context is the act‚ for an employee‚ disclosing what he believes to be an unethical or illegal behaviour to higher management (internal whistle-blowing) or to an external authority or the public (external whistle-blowing). Examples of unethical acts include sexual harassment and racial discrimination at work while illegal act include the accounting fraud by the Arthur-Andersen accountants for Enron (Sims & Brinkmann 2003)
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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
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Does Blowing the Whistle Violate Company Loyalty? Employees have moral obligations to respect the property of the corporation‚ to abide by employment" onmouseover="window.status = ’goto: employment’;return 1" onmouseout="window.status=’’">employment contracts‚ and to operate within the bounds of the company’s procedural rules. However‚ the duty of loyalty is not absolute. That an employee should be loyal is a prima facie duty. The object of the employee’s duty must be deserving if the duty is genuine
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label generated by increased awareness of the ethical conflicts encountered at work. Whistle blowers sound the alarm from within the very organization in which they work‚ aiming to spotlight neglect or abuses that threaten the public interest. The stakes in whistleblowing are high‚ whistle blowers pose a threat to those whom they denounce and their own careers are at risk. Sissela Bok acknowledges that blowing the whistle is often justified but that in doing so the individual creates dissent‚ conflict
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Whistle blowing is known as ‘when an employee reports some wrongdoing to people that have the authority to take correct action‚ the wrongdoing is usually a disobedience of the rules and is a threat to the public interest through fraud‚ corruptions and so on’.(www.wikipedia.org). The Public Disclosure Act 1998 came into effect in 1998. Employees were hesitant to speak up about wrongdoing because they were afraid that they would not be listened to or that they would be putting their jobs at risk. The
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Whistle Blower 44) The Plaintiff was a whistle blower when he informed John Cora‚ and the Defendant Violated the 1st and 14th Amendment rights. The Plaintiff was a Whistle blower again when he informed the City of Casper of the illegal activity of Anderson and Langston. 45) Cindy Langston has destroyed her emails after a FOIA request‚ in violation of the sunshine law and the Public records act. 46) The State of Wyoming has not filed a Solid Waste Management Plan as required and this was discovered
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you. 1. WordPress— WordPress can either be a hosted platform or one you use on your own server. Basic access to Wordpress is free of charge and there are a wide variety of templates available for customization. It also comes with some attractive features like spam blocking and integrated stats as well as numerous plugins you can add yourself. 2. Blogger— Blogger is a free‚ hosted blogging platform. While Blogger might lack some of the usability that other platforms have‚ it makes up for it with features
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loyalty. She wanted to know how the Company could build an Asia-specific CRM process blueprint for their internal customer management process and transfer that knowledge to its clients. The strategy team had a four-week deadline to present its solutions. Grey Global Group was a full communications enterprise with 16 global partner companies focused on distinct communications disciplines and engaged in a wide range of marketing and
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(negligently) runs over another while driving carelessly has committed a tort of battery based on negligence Duty of Care The reasonable person standard The law does not require perfection‚ only what is reasonable under the circumstances In the case of a professional such as a doctor‚ engineer or accountant‚ that standard is a reasonable doctor‚ engineer or accountant. SQUISH LA FISH v. THOMCO Issue Did the defendant fail to take reasonable care that the information it provided was correct
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