your employees and your organization I believe that whistleblowing policies can contribute to a just workplace by helping to improve the ethical climate and by helping to ensure that employee rights are respected. Wrongdoing cannot be corrected unless organizational leaders are aware of it. Whistleblowing policies should promote more open communication about sensitive ethical and moral issues. One research study suggests that formal whistleblowing policies do indeed encourage such communication. The
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Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance AnnMarie Seidler Dr. Charity Lanier Legal 500 October 30, 2013 As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a midsize company that is preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), I discover several personnel problems that require my immediate attention. It is my duty to be familiar with the Employee-at-will Doctrine and any exceptions if any that may apply to the employees and my employer. While preparing to deal with our personnel problems I discover that
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Applying Ethical Theories to Whistleblowing Didi G. Wright Stevenson University Every day as professionals, we are faced with challenging ethical dilemmas to report perceived wrongdoings or some breach of trust by our coworkers. As individuals, each of us has set of values and beliefs that we adhere to and used as guides or moral compasses when making difficult decisions. Cynthia Cooper like many of us was faced with a similar conflict which she was hesitant to speak out because of the
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and Freedom of information Table of Contents Opening 2 Wikileaks and Julian Assange 2 Who is Julian Assange? 3 Cablegate 3 Circumstances of unleashing Cablegate 5 Freedom of information and Whistleblowing 6 The Freedom of Information Act 6 Protected disclosures i.e. Whistleblowing 6 Conclusion 7 Reference List/ Bibliography 8 Opening Wikileaks is a worldwide known organization and Cablegate has been one of the most recognizable, shocking and revealing affair for past years
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Management, Performance Management, Whistleblowing, Internal Reporting and Investigation, Corruption Risk Management, and Interface with the External Environment. The assessment provided a thorough diagnosis of corruption vulnerability and resistance, availability of control mechanisms and the effectiveness of existing systems. Agency strengths include compliance to minimum standards of laws pertinent to corruption prevention except for Gifts and Benefits and Whistleblowing and Internal Reporting, which
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In the nineteenth century, Employment- at-will doctrine was developed. This doctrine is a legal rule that gives employers unregulated authority to “dismiss their employees at will for a good cause, for no cause, or even for cause morally wrong, without being thereby guilty of a legal wrong” (Halbert, T. and Ingulli p.49). According to Justice Harlan, “The right of an employee to quit the services of the employer, for whatever reason, is the same as the right of the employer, for whatever reason
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Name of the Student Submitted to Name of University Date Course Abstract Generally, whistle blower is a person who tries to expose wrong doing inside an organization either to the public or to the authorized people. Whistle blowers disclose information regarding any misconduct at their work place which they think may be against public welfare or law. They speak out to expose corruption or to expose any kind of danger to the public or the environment. Whistle-blowing can
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a community that does not support or protect reporting illegal activities is significantly high. Employees who work in public or private organizations are the first to identify wrongdoings in a workplace since they have up-to-date information. Whistleblowing can be an essential tool to identify and report these actions in the public, private and non-profit sectors. However, by revealing wrongdoings, whistleblowers often take high personal risks. Lacking strong legal protection might increase the change
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Finally, an implied covenant of “good faith and fair dealings” between employer and employee is an exception that is the least used among the 50 states. In certain cases, such as those protecting financial service sectors and federal employees, whistleblowing is not a legal ground for termination. A whistleblower is someone who seeks to protect the integrity of a company by disclosing unethical or illegal activities to supervisors, regulators or the media in some cases. The desired result, for a whistleblower
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“Many people find that they have a need of loyalty. Loyalty is a good thing for them,” (317). Loyalty to a cause would have been good for me because it would have given me a supportive reason to be uncomfortable with the music. I should have been whistleblowing for the activists who fought for me to be able to attend this university. I should have blew the whistle for the minorities who were not allowed to edit for this publication. Most importantly. I would have been standing up for the African-Americans
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