Essays on Whistle-Blower

The article entitled as ‘Edward Snowden is No Hero’, by Jeffrey Toobin, addresses the issue related to the unauthorized access to the individual’s personal details to the government organization. The author has discussed the concerns of Edward Snowden about the prevalence of access to the personal information of a large amount of population without the adequate judgment about the use of the information by the organization. The concerns of the author are considered as a whistle-blower issue that can enlighten and address the wellbeing of the society by indicating the prevalence of an unethical practical. Moreover, the author’ ...

The employment at will doctrine dictates that, employers are at volition to decide when and under what parameters to dismiss a worker. In this context, employers are at no obligation by the state to bring on board the reasons that actuated their actions into place. However, it should be noted that, the actions by the employers should not be illegal. In the United States of America, the doctrine was adopted so as to override on the circumstances that were in place in as far as the position of employers was concerned (Miller, 2009). In this regard, employers merged up and ...

Question One: Insider Trading

For the longest time possible, the concept of insider trading in business has been considered unfair, inequitable and against the spirit of fair competition in business. Insider trading is opposed for the simple reason that it does not afford all players in the market all the requisite information used in arriving at decisions as to whether to invest or not. Two critical arguments are availed against insider trading. These are the property rights and the fairness principle. This paper shall discuss the two arguments in much detail.

It is argued that insider trading dispenses with the principle of fairness ...

Introduction

The United States has adopted a culture that promotes whistle blowing in most industries. Research indicates that organizations without proper mechanisms for reporting unethical behavior report twice as high fraud related losses compared to those that do not. Johnston (2005) stated that over 40% of all fraud cases in such companies are detected by whistleblowers in comparison to 4% by internal audits, 11% through external audits, 1% by accident, and 18% through internal controls. This shows that the whistle blowers are important and therefore should be protected by the law. However, while the whistleblower protection laws are written to protect ...

The first approach to whistle blowing condemns whistle blowers as people who rat on their own organizations or companies, thus, undermining the authority’s hierarchy and teamwork (Martin, 402). Although an approach, Martin feels that corporations should note that for employees loyalty to the organization is not an absolute moral principle, and thus, it is the role of the public to protect whistleblowers. The second approach suggests that although whistle blowing is a necessary evil and at times tagged admirable when it happens, all around it is always bad news (Martin, 402). This is simply because it disrupts and damages ...

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Introduction

There are a number of policies in place for pharmaceutical and medical device companies that require every employee to act in accordance with all appropriate laws and regulations devised at both state and federal levels. It is important to fully comply with these policies in all aspects of business, including advertising, marketing, selling, contracting, development, research, etc. The Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Federal False Claims Act are two major governmental laws that are regulated in the United States of America. There are many states in USA that have enacted related laws in order to penalize the ...

The origin of whistle blowing can be adduced back to the provisions that are brought to book in common law. Common law referred to the laws that were enacted to protect affairs of people in medieval times. They were based on the common principles that guided the affairs of people. It is from this instance that whistle blowing was devised. As a common phenomenon, most employers were acting in a manner that can better be described as ultra vires in the exercise of their duties. In essence, whistle blowing was devised as the position that could act as a guide and a means ...

Some Paradoxes Associated With Whistle Blowing.

The term whistle blower refers to an individual or an informant who exposes wrongdoing within the organization with the objective or hopes to stop it. On the other hand, a paradox refers to the inconsistency between the theory of our systematic understanding of whistle blowing and what we actually know about whistle blowing. This paper provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the paradoxes behind whistle blowing. However, there is nothing morally problematic about whistle blowing because after all. This is because revealing of the information that has not been revealed is part of the function of science. However, research ...

Whistle blowing is a significant policy in promoting organizational ethics. It is the disclosure by members of an organization of any form of illegal, illegitimate, unethical or immoral activities under their employer’s control. These practices could be done either by colleague employees or by senior members or administrators of the organization. Whistle blowing in organizations allows for any form of wrong doing to be reported or brought to public attention through different forms of disclosure. Disclosures through whistle blowing could also be reporting matters of public interests that were being infringed by some people in an organization or the ...

The Ethical dilemmas of WikiLeaks

Wikileaks is an international company that publishes unidentified submissions and leaks the information in the document while still hiding its source. A self-described nonprofit making organization was initially launched in Australia, in the year 2006 under the sunshine press. The organization has released a considerable number of documents, which have become indispensable news items. The first document to be released was the equipment expenditure and holdings of the war in Afghanistan and the Kenyan corruption. In April 2010, they published footage on the Baghdad airstrike that left many Iraqi reporters killed by an Apache helicopter. In July, the same year, ...

SECURITY REPORTING

Joseph Wellington did not handle the question in an appropriate manner as he failed to answer the question asked and give supporting evidence of how the company handled Qui tam. If I was in Wellington’s position I would have explained to the participant that Qui tam is a term used to refer to a law suit initiated by a private citizen against a company for violating a regulation set by the government. The private citizen who initiates such a law suit is called a whistle blower (Doyle, 2010, p. 7). The whistle blowing in this case gets a percentage of the penalty that the company will ...

This article is discussing the sudden death of a whistle-blower who was recently involved with the release of information that led to a major news media scandal in the UK. This article is designed to raise the question of whether his death should be considered suspicious or not as it follows an on-going series of reports that are constantly being updated as more and more of the scandal is revealed. The article does that by drawing attention to what the deceased went on record as saying to the New York Times, declaring that the scandal runs far deeper than just the ...