Discuss about whistle blowing. State of the factors involved in this process. Write down how to the manage whistle blowing.
Whistle blowing is the voluntary release of
non public information, as a moral protest, by a member or former member of an organization
outside the normal channels of communication to an appropriate audience about
illegal and/or immoral conduct in the organization or conduct in the
organization that is opposed in some significant way to the public interest.
Whistle blowing, as in sports, indicates a
temporary stop either for some big achievement or an offence done by one or a
group of players.
In professional ethics some authorities or
some organizations may blow whistle to stop and protest against unethical behavior
or actions which may cause harm to the society, nation or even individuals. In
professional field a lot of large activities are undertaken on a global level,
be it purchase of arms and amenities, construction of huge airports, seaports,
or Railway headquarters or building giant residential complexes, sports stadium
or mammoth shopping malls. And in such
deals there is always scope for unethical practices which help one company,
group or country to win over other depriving them in spite of their other
superior claims.
Whistle blowing should in such cases be
done by authority like United Nations, WTO, Commonwealth Secretariat or
international commercial cum political groups like Saarc, Nafta, Sapta, etc.
Ethical Justification
of Whistle Blowing :
The ethical justification of whistle
blowing might seem to be obvious in view of the laudable public service that
whistle blowers provide — often at great personal risk. However, whistle
blowing has the potential to do great harm to both individuals and
organizations.
The negative case against whistle blowing
is given vigorous expression in a widely cited passage from a 1971 speech by
James M. Roche, who was Chairman of the board of General Motors Corporation at
the time:
Some critics are now busy eroding another
support of free enterprise — the loyalty
of a management team, with its unifying values of cooperative work. Some of the enemies of business now encourage
an employee to be disloyal to the enterprise.
They want to create suspicion and disharmony, and pry into the proprietary
interests of the business. However
this labelled - industrial espionage,
whistle blowing or
professional responsibility — it is another tactic for spreading
disunity and creating conflict.
As per this remark indicates the main
stumbling block in justifying whistle blowing is the duty of loyalty that
employees have to the organization of which they are a part. The public service
that whistle blowers provide has to be weighed against the disruptive effect
that the disclosure of information has on bonds of loyalty.
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