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‚ or select one from the chapters in the
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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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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 get caught between business and social responsibility. They have to decide what is best for the business and what is best for the world. In the Insider Big tobacco denies that nicotine is an addictive drug. Jeff Wigand is a tobacco executive and has to decide
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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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THE GUARD For a brief moment‚ while waiting for my instructor to check the plotter‚ I glanced out through the window of the gunnery storeroom at the surrounding Ambala countryside. It lay green and crisp beneath a crackling December sun. Winter was already tightening its cold embrace over North India. Behind me lay the boundary fence of the command Air Force base‚ the largest air force station north of Delhi. And beyond the Air Force station was the Grand Trunk Road‚ the life line connecting Srinagar
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decisions and overriding some important information from professional 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
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WHISTLEBLOWING: AN ETHICAL DILEMMA Joan K. Pierson‚ Karen A. Forcht‚ Ben M. Bauman Information and Decision Sciences Department James Madison 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
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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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cover the following sections:Section 1: InductionExplain why it is important to ensure children and young people are protected from harm in the work setting. As part of the Working Together to Safeguard children‚ organisations and individuals have a responsibility to work together to safeguard the well-being and welfare of all children and young people in their care. This of course‚ includes looking after the health‚ well-being and welfare while they are in the school environment. Everyone who works
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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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