Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley Due Artize L. Johnson Professor: Steve Harris LEG 500 Law‚ Ethics‚ & Corporate Governance 26 April 2015 According to Halbert‚ Ingulli‚ & Frey (2015)‚ whistleblowers are people who decide to report unethical or illegal activities‚ usually activities under the control of their employers. They may be working for private companies‚ nonprofit organizations‚ or for the government. A whistleblower is an individual working in an organization who decides
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Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley Assignment 1 Strayer University LEG500 Professor Lundondo Mumeka Abu Abbasi October 28‚ 2014 Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley: Key characteristics of a Whistleblower What is a whistle-blower? A whistle-blower can be an employee or an ex-employee of a company who have evidence of deceitfulness and/or unethical behavior in the organization or behavior in the business that is not in the best interest of the public (Fernando‚ 365). Whistle-blowers usually disclose
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Whistleblowing After a complete analysis of the situation‚ our team believes that the whistle blower at SNC-Lavalin was justified. To come to such a conclusion we can borrow an analysis of the ethics of whistleblowing created by philosopher Richard DeGeorge. 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
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lack of reporting complaints and took this information to top management and was told to be quite about his findings. When he did not comply‚ he was later fired. He sued the company under the “whistleblower-protection” act of Sarbanes Oxley. Whistleblowing is the act of an employee exposing a company’s misconduct‚ illegal activity‚ or threats to public interest. The SOX act specifically grants protection to whistleblowers of publicly held companies when there are federal offenses including fraud
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Reaction Paper Thinking‚ Fast and Slow 2011 a book by Daniel Kahneman Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For Master of Business Administration Degree Judgment in Managerial Decision Thinking The secrets of the human brain: the two mechanisms that control our lives Thinking‚ Fast and Slow is a 2011 book by Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics Daniel Kahneman which summarizes research that he conducted over decades‚ often in collaboration with Amos Tversky. It covers
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11/3/2014 Why Your Company Should Have A Whistleblowing Policy Why Your Company Should Have A Whistleblowing Policy by Tim Barnett‚ Assistant Professor of Management‚ Louisiana Tech University Sam Advanced Management Journal‚ Autumn‚ 1992‚ pp. 37-42 Whistleblowers‚ those individuals who call attention to possible wrongdoing within their organizations‚ are the subjects of much controversy. Some say that whistleblowers are noble characters‚ willing to sacrifice personally and professionally to expose
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of “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus” In “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus”‚ the author‚ Derek Bok shows how expressing yourself falls under the First Amendment‚ whether it is on a private college campus or public college campus. He further explains that just because it is protected by law does not mean that it is “right‚ proper‚ or civil. Bok goes on to show how censoring freedom of speech would cause people to “test the limits” to gain more attention than is needed
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Summary of Article 5: Just Leave Me Alone: A Sad End to Whistleblowing From 1980s‚ there are growth of voluntary activities in some of companies and brought changes in the public perception on corporate behavior. Realizing the bad publicity that could damage corporate brand image‚ code of conduct introduced. However‚ there are still unscrupulous activities and cases involving corporation. Subsequently‚ whistleblowing is take place to regulate corporation if code of conduct fails to do so. Whistle
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YES Summary – Sissela Bok According to Sissela Bok whistleblowing is a label 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
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to the dangers of corruption or malfeasance. Those who blow the whistle can neither risk the silencing of themselves for reasons of concrete evidence that question the proper moral and ethical interests of the public eye. According to Sissela Bok‚ “’Whistleblowing’ is a new label generated by our increased awareness of ethical conflicts encountered at work. Whistleblowers sound an alarm from within the very organization in which they work‚ aiming to spotlight neglect or abuses that threaten the public
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