Is Whistle-blowing Good for an Organization or Not? This paper will explore whistle-blowing by giving a definition‚ a brief history of a couple of famous whistle-blowers‚ and how whistle-blowers have a positive effect in today’s business. Origins of the Whistle-blower: “The term whistleblower derives from the practice of English Bobbies (police officers) who would blow their whistle when they noticed the commission of a crime. The blowing of the whistle would alert both law enforcement
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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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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
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Conditions under which decisions are made are as follows: Certainty This is when individuals are informed about a problem‚ alternative solutions are obvious and the likely of each solutions are clear. With this condition you have everything under control as you know that should something happen‚ you already have measures in place to take care of that situation. An example is in the case whereby you are involved in a car accident‚ say when you take insurance for your car you add the option of being
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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 and breaches
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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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Is abortion morally justifiable? The issue concerning abortion is considered to divide many individuals‚ it tends to be fought over the point in which a foetus (an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception) becomes an independent life that has its own values: before birth or after conception. “To my mind life begins at the moment of conception‚ and to suggest otherwise seems to me just the sort of casuistry which an anti-Papist might describe as fesuitical. (Incidentally‚ I am
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Comparison of the physiology of fossils to present day organisms have showed relationships between the organisms The examination of the DNA structure of organisms has shown the development from past organisms. • Describe the conditions under which fossils form: Fossils are any remains of past life found in rocks of different ages Fossilisation is a rare event For fossilisation to occur‚ the following events must happen: ▪ Quick burial in soil‚ sand or mud
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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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Unit 5. 1. Under what circumstances are employees most likely to blow the whistle? I believe whistle blowing itself is a bold action by any individual or a group of people. I just wanted to add this before my discussion to explain my modesty towards the whistle blowers‚ only to the genuine ones. An employee is likely to blow the whistle ideally in a circumstance when they see any unethical activities occurring in their organization. It can be in a process or in the hierarchy itself but still
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