Whistle Blowing: Importance, Case Studies and Recommendations

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Executive Summary
The main aim of this report is to understand the entire concept of whistle blowing and why it
is important for any country or organization. It is being utilized when any specific worker or
employee is passing on information about wrong doings. It is even termed as making of a
disclosure with a belief that this wrong doing would be stopped. A whistle blower is an
individual, who is responsible for exposing any type of activity or information, which is
deemed incorrect, unethical and illegal in either a public or a private organization. This
information of alleged wrong doing could be sub divided in several ways like violation of
regulations, laws, organizational rules or policies and even threat to public interests or
national security, corruption and fraud. These whistle blowers can select to bring out such
allegations or information for surfacing either externally or internally. Internally the whistle
blower can bring few accusations to the respective attention of other people and externally
these accusations could be brought to light after contacting a third party like law
enforcement, government and social media. This report has demonstrated about whistle
blowing and three distinctive case studies on whistle blowing in businesses. Few
recommendations are also provided for dealing with such issues.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
3. Background............................................................................................................................3
4. Discussion on Three Case Studies on Whistle Blowing........................................................4
4.1 Summary of Case Study 1................................................................................................4
4.2 Summary of Case Study 2................................................................................................5
4.3 Summary of Case Study 3................................................................................................6
5. Recommendations for Addressing Issues based on Strategies learnt in the IT Professional.6
6. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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1. Introduction
Whistle blowing can be referred to as a making of disclosure for any kind of wrong
doing or activity that is taking place within any particular organization. It is the significant act
of drawing authority or public attention towards perceived misconduct, wrong doing or even
unethical activity in any private, third sector or public organization (Vandekerckhove 2016).
The most common activities that are being highlighted by the whistle blowers in most of the
cases of whistle blowing are bullying, violation of safety or health measures, discrimination,
bullying, fraud and cover ups. It is the responsibility of each and every employee to ensure
that any type of unethical activity or action is being executed within the organization and if
any such issue is highlighted, should be directly mentioned to the senior authority or third
party without any delay so that such activity is being stopped (Davis 2013). The following
report outlines a brief discussion on three case studies on whistle blowing.
3. Background
There are several real life examples of whistle blowing that ensure that such activities
should be stopped for maintaining a proper balance between work ethics and working
conditions (Bjørkelo 2013). Although there are certain laws in every company regarding
unethical and illegal activities, it is being noted that this type of law does not need the
employers having roper whistle blowing policy or procedure in place, an existence of a
whistle blowing policy subsequently shows that ethics and laws are being followed in the
organization. To have clear policies as well as processes for dealing with the whistle blowing,
a specific depicts that they are welcoming information to the management attention (Alleyne,
Hudaib and Pike 2013). The following paragraphs will be providing three case studies on
whistle blowing in business or organization from different parts of the world. Moreover,