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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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 the loyalty of their employer. Whistleblowers
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Business Ethics Title of Assignment: Term Paper Whistle Blowing This assignment was done in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Finance Major course (BBA 4) Term paper (GROUP ASSIGNMENT) THE PAPER WILL REQUIRE SOME RESEARCH AND CRITICAL REFLECTION ON WHAT HAS BEEN COVERED IN THE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS. The term paper will be on a topic of interest to the student‚ but requires the approval of the tutor. You may choose a topic from current issues in the news‚
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MAKAHAMADZE Whistle blowing has been described as violating company and collegial loyalty while at the same time it helps to inform the public about business practices. This article is intended to: a. Discuss this statement in relation to whistle blowing as a technique of exposing unethical business practices in an organization b. Suggest other ways of exposing unethical business practices – highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each technique (a)INTRODUCTION Whistle blowing is an attempt
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happening in their company or organization. There are many things that the whistleblower can reveal such as the breaking of laws‚ exposing fraud‚ corruption‚ or health and safety violations. These allegations can expressed to the people that run the company or organization and they can be expressed to the outside world such as the media or law enforcement. The whistleblower normally faces reprisal from their company‚ related organizations‚ or sometimes from the law. Whistle blowing happens when people
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protecting whistle blowing should be included in all policies‚ of any operating government agency. This is because; information that is found as an illegal act towards the government should be reported immediately before it is leaked out to the society and chaos can be a factoring outcome of this. Whistleblower is one of many colloquial terms for individuals who exercise their right of freedom of expression to alert the public about wrong doing or threats to the public interest. Whistle blowing‚ by definition
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University Harrisonburg‚ Virginia‚ USA ABSTRACT Because most organizations depend on computer systems that electronically store important data to perform crucial business functions‚ the integrity of these information systems is paramount. Securing company systems‚ however‚ is not always an easy task. More sophisticated systems often provide widespread access to computer resources and increased user knowledge‚ which may lead to added difficulties in maintaining security. This paper explores whistleblowing-employees
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advocates the disclosure of company whistle-blowing practices and procedures. Should employees have a duty to blow the whistle on unethical or illegal acts? Before we proceed into the essay question‚ we need to ask ourselves what we understand by the term “Whistleblowing”. There is no globally accepted definition for whistle-blowing although several attempts have been made to define it. Ralph Nader was one of the first few in modern history to use the term “whistle-blowing” and in his book‚ it was
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employees within the company is considered a real catastrophe. Applying pressure on senior management team of the company that has developed the rocket in order to change their opinion about launching can be considered to be another catastrophe. All these misjudgment actions from the NASA team and the Morton Thiokol team have lead to the challenger real crisis. Whistle blowing A whistle blower is a person who reveals some wrong actions done by his employer or the company he works for in an investigation
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Story of Steely McBean‚ Whistle Blower Employment Law April 15‚ 2014 By Penelope Brady & Tara According to George Kerevan‚ “Word of the Week” columnist for The Scotsman‚ “The etymological origins of whistle blowing are gloriously obscure.” Yet even without knowing the term’s pedigree‚ we get a vivid picture from the words themselves. Kerevan suggests the obvious one‚ a police officer shrilling on a whistle when he or she catches a crime in progress. Whistle blowing means calling attention
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