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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Is Employer Monitoring of Employee Social Media Justified? Bus 330 Social networks have been making a splash in the internet world over the past couple of years. In some studies into the monitoring of social media activity by employees has once again brought to light the various concerns and complaints that this contentious area inevitably generates. The idea of monitoring employees’ conversations has a certain Orwellian darkness that encourages accusations of privacy invasion and corporate
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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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Employee privacy has been a debate for the centuries. In the past it was how an employee conducted themselves away from the workplace because they were representatives of the company. Today in our technological world‚ it is all about e-mails‚ social networking sites‚ internet‚ voicemail‚ etc. Is it justified for employers to have these forms of communication monitored? Chauncey M. DePree‚ Jr. and Rebecca K. Jude in their article‚ “Who’s Reading Your Office E-mail? Is that Legal?” argue that employer’s
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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 often
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and P.E. Twining ‘Bentham on Torture’ at vol. 24 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 305‚ what is morally wrong with torture? Can it ever be morally justified? If so‚ when? If not‚ why not? Torture is not a popular practice amongst any developed society. To some‚ it is an extremely emotive word‚ the mere utterance of which brings to mind feelings of disgust and hatred towards those who might even think of employing torture‚ for whatever purpose. However‚ perhaps these people are too quick to dismiss
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illness but before it can do its job‚ like any other drug‚ it must first be tested to healthy human beings in order to assure the effects of the newly created drug. Of course‚ considering that the test subjects are “healthy” they would not agree on taking in any drug that doesn’t assure their health benefits from taking it. Putting it in the perspective of the categorical imperative; Universalizability: “What if every pharmaceutical company conduct an experiment on every healthy human being?” now
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Loyalty and its Role in the Employee and Employer Relationship For many businesses‚ employee loyalty is a prerequisite for any job seeker in the marketplace‚ especially now that the economy is still recovering from a major recession. Employers are picking from a large base of potential employees‚ and selecting the right one isn’t all about skills and experience; should a company suspect that an employee is a potential liability with respect to loyalty‚ the large population of available replacements
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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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