This incident Challenger present us a case study in organizational communication, ethics and culture as it promotes or discourages necessary communication and the ethics of whistle blowing.…
According to DeGeorge, for whistle-blowing to be considered ethical there first must be a serious harm that the whistle-blowing aims to prevent, which is greater than the harm it causes the firm and stakeholders. In this case, the corrupt activities are very serious and would have posed a greater harm going undetected than the negative media attention and charges brought against the firm. DeGeorge’s second condition states that the whistle-blower is required to first attempt to prevent…
This opens a new range of views, ideas, and problems that people may not otherwise understand. When discussing whistleblower research, Adam Waytz, James Dugan, and Liane Young, (2013) conducted a study on the relationship between fairness and loyalty to a whistleblowers decision making, willingness, and the psychological view of whistleblowers. The purpose of this study was to find out the tradeoff between fairness and loyalty in an individual’s willingness to report. Waytz et. Al (2013, p.1031) found that in divided groups, participants in the fairness condition group engaged in more whistleblowing behavior than the individuals who were placed in the loyalty condition group. This study can contribute to the possible reasons why people decide to blow the whistle. This study shows the problems that whistleblowers have in decision making in regards to deciding between loyalty or fairness. It is important that individuals understand that deciding to blow the whistle is not something as simple as saying yes I will, or no I won’t, but rather it is often a decision between fairness and loyalty. When referencing this to historic problems of whistleblowing, it provides some context as to what can lead someone to blowing the whistle and the potential personality of that…
According to Hutson (2014), “It is generally accepted that there are two types of whistle-blowing: internal and external. Internal whistle-blowing typically involves reporting concerns up the chain of command within the organization in the hope that whatever the problem is, it will be resolved. External whistle-blowing involves reporting concerns outside the organization and in particular, the media” (p. 251).…
Clark, R. (1999, January). Health Care Financial Management the Ethics of Whistle-Blowing. Retrieved from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3257/is_1_53…
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 and overriding rater that prima facie. Many of the moral grounds for employee loyalty have been destroyed. Yet there are some minimum requirements of loyalty based in law. The whistleblower may feel they face a conflict between loyalty to their…
on whistle blowing: The moderating impact of the moral intensity of the issue. (2011). Journal of Business Ethics, 103(3), 485-496. doi:10.1007/s10551-011-0876-z.…
1. Who is ultimately accountable / responsible for the medical staff working at a hospital? Who would be the responsible party at this hospital? Support your answer with documentation and legal reference (for example did your support come from your text, if so, state the page), eg. past cases (cite case), specific Tennessee code, specific federal law, etc.…
7. Miceli, M. P., & Near, J. P. 1992. Blowing the whistle: The organizational and legal implications for companies and employees. New York: Lexington Books.…
James Terry was a former third in command at the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office that was apart of the Major of Operations. Terry had filled a complaint about Sheriff Al Nienhuis that he has hidden $1.3 millions dollar in revenue from collecting the housing of the federal inmates last year from the County Commission. This case has just started to begin under investigation and that the issue will be discuss further on July 11. This article has many ethical issues dealing with the government officials. One of them name James Terry who was whistleblowing on another government official that stated a Sheriff, Al Nienhuis has been hiding and taking the money from the County Commission (655). On the other hand Sheriff Al Nienhuis was a lobbyists in this article because he wanted the money from the government and the federal inmates housing (655). Therefore, what Terry has done by whistleblowing on another government official is called truth telling,…
2. What measures can and should be taken to make it easier for corporate employees to ‘‘blow the whistle’’ on a fraudulent scheme they uncovered within the firm?…
Tsahuridu and Vandekerckhove (2008) argued that organizations must execute internal measures to allow employees to bring up issues internally so as to secure the right to whistle-blowing. However, by executing these measures, employees are then morally obliged to blow the whistle. In this essay, we will talk about the importance of whistle-blowing, ethics and corporate governance in an organization, moral agency and responsibility as well as whistle-blowing as an internal control mechanism. Based on all these factors, we will then conclude on whether employees should have a duty to blow the whistle on unethical or illegal acts.…
As years go by more firms are beginning to recognize the benefits of improving ethical conduct. They are seeing an enormous correlation between business ethics and financial performance (Ferrell). There are numerous of examples that demonstrate that building an ethical reputation among employees, customers, and the general public pays off. For example, employee commitment and trust, investor loyalty and trust, and customer satisfaction and trust, which in the end creates profit (Ferrell). The reputation of a company can either benefit these three areas if they integrate ethics into the company as a whole, or prejudice if they decide to make bad ethical decisions. Today there are many cases when the company or employer is the one who is behaving in an incorrect ethical manner and not the employee. That’s what happened to an employee named Chantale Leroux in the case of Whistleblowing and the Environment: the Case of Avco Environmental.…
My reasoning is that Duran is innocent from unethical practices from extorting financial gains from TAP. According to Senator Charles Grassley, "having informants report on company wrongdoings is the best way to prevent illegal activity. There can never be enough bureaucrats to discourage fraudulent use of taxpayer's money but knowing colleagues might squeal can be deterrent" (Judge, 2007) p.179.…
Training and seminar provides guides for management to practice a strong code of conduct and also will create awareness on whistle blower program. New employees should be trained at the time of hiring about the company’s values and its code of ethics. This training should explicitly cover expectations of all employees regarding their duty to communicate certain matters, a list of types of matters including actual or suspected fraud to be communicated along with specific examples and information on how to communicate those matters. In addition to training at the time of hiring, employees will have knowledge regarding whistle blower program. They will come forward to expose the fraud to related parties as they know that they…
