Essays on Whistleblower

The President,

United States of America. Introduction The concept of corporate ethics is widely accepted today. In order to stabilize the growth and development of the overall U.S economy, industries regardless of their nature or size must be instructed to follow certain ethical guidelines. In the current corporate environment, it is advisable for the U.S government to introduce three key changes to its corporate governance framework. First, there should be a single body or statutory regime to deal with corporate governance affairs in the country. Second, corporate ethics is essential to distinguish the roles of chairman and chief executive officer in ...

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BMW Group is one of the most successful automotive companies in the world and is a considered a brand leader in the premium market segment in the United States. Despite competitive pressures within the market segments and among the low and mid-priced automotive, BMW’s vehicle volume sales continued to increase by 5.2% in 2015, thanks to the normalization of the global economy. Its revenues also increased by 14.6% and reached $92.2 billion while its net income reached $6.4 billion, a 10% increased from the previous year (BMW Group, 2016). As per location, Germany accounted for 42.6% of the ...

There were several main red flags that were ignored or handled leniently by E&Y auditors in the audit of Health South. The most important were materiality in ledgers of fixed assets that were adjusted by including false entries and fictitious assets that did not appear in real. Another red flag related to the reality was noticed and ignored by the auditors that company’s officials were interested in increasing the share price of HealthSouth in the stock market anyhow. There should have been awareness of the fact that was avoided by auditors was an unusual increase in the net ...

Whistleblower Protection Act

The major goal of the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) of 1989 was to encourage private-sector employees to report the misconduct of a manager or other top executives. The WPA protects private sector whistleblowers against manager retaliations in the form of demotions, pay cuts, or termination. Under this statute, any disclosure of information will be protected if there is sufficient ground to justify that the whistleblower had a ‘reasonable belief’ that the information was true (Whitaker, 2007). A major component of this law is that whistleblowers are required to present sufficient evidences (documents and other) to justify their claims while ...

Assignment 2: Employment-At-Will Doctrine

Abstract Employment-At-Will Doctrine states that states that an employee or an employer can decide to end the employment contract with or without a prior notification. A workplace has a lot of complications and requires some rules and regulations to govern it. Admittedly, there are some exceptions that limit the full application of the employment at will doctrine as the exceptions challenge it. The paper will expound three major exceptions including public policy exception, implied contract and the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing. Additionally, a case scenario involving employees of a company and the bosses will be ...

Of late, whistleblowing is something that has come to be one of the major occurrences that are successful in stirring the entire society with the sheer impetus of shocking revelation that are of primary importance. With time, people have come to be more aware about the ethical conflicts that are encountered at workplaces. It needs to be reckoned that whistleblowers go on to sound the alarm from within an organization in which they function, only to highlight the abuses or neglect that come to threaten the interest of the people in general. Very high stakes are involved in whistleblowing. ...

Attribute Standard 1312 issued by the IIA indicates that Internal Audit Departments purporting to follow IIA Standards must have an external assessment “conducted at least once every five years by a qualified, independent reviewer or review team from outside the organization. Two such organizations include World Com and Fannie Mae. The two organizations were in the news owing to various reporting and internal audit practices that may have resulted in their collapse, as is the case of World Com or hefty financial losses for their shareholders and other stakeholders. Consequent to such observations, the objective of this paper is ...

Is Edward Snowden a Traitor or a Hero?

In this research paper, we would like to talk about the controversy that chases the society on every corner of the 21st century and how our beloved Social Media can become a reason of the risk. Also, the main topic of our research is a life story of one of the most controversial personalities alive nowadays. He is a true superhero. The authorities hate him, simple people rely on him. The man who was not afraid to disclose the confidential data of the US government in order to protect the people of the whole wide world. One may say ...

In the modern day setting, wrongdoing has become synonymous with the operations of various multinational corporations. With some individuals within and outside such organizations still conscious regarding ethics, whistle-blowing or dissent has increasingly become frequent. A context affected by this scenario is the United States’ collegiate sport. Whistle-blowing here has become common due to the feeling that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is very ineffective in its mandate. This paper argues that the feminist standpoint theory and the perspective that takes into account the input of external stakeholders are essential in characterizing dissent in this context.

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The internal environment of a company is dependent to a large extent on the ethical attitudes among the employees. Often, it is not easy for employees to take moral and ethical decisions that go against the monetary interests of the company. Employees making an ethical decision adverse to the interests of the employer usually forms a part of whistle blowing and is often met with retributions and recriminations from the employer. While employees have some obligations to their company and to their employer, they also have wider obligations to the society and to the country at large. ‘Whistle blowing’ ...

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Some people may be confused when it comes to give the definition of whistleblowing, According to Weimer (2014), whistleblowing is the manifestation of an ethical concept implying spreading information of somebody, who is in danger or in a risky situation among some higher-ranked officials, so in case of being accused a person will be fined or sanctioned. The concern raised may be raised externally or internally in order to inform people about wrongdoings. There are many complaints, which can be viewed as whistleblowing. For such issues the protection by law has to be provided. These complaints are criminal offences ...

I. TOPIC: Whistleblowing Since the subject-matter of the essay is whistleblowing, there is a need of clear definition of this concept within the frameworks of this paper. As a rule whistleblowing is understood by many people as an ethical concept implying spreading information of somebody’s wrongdoings among some higher-ranked officials, so that the accused person will be sanctioned of fined (Weimer, 2014). As usual, this concept is used within the context of corporate working end employed work in some private firms and corporations (Johnson, 2003). However nowadays we can see that “whistleblowing” has become a tangible part of ...

Answer:  Item (2): Find and properly cite a published article by Lee Sheppard.

Answer: . The articleis about taxation, since Lee Sheppard focuses in financial matters and the taxation of international corporations. This article is inclusive of commentary on agreement issues, transmission pricing, European tax progresses, and pioneering financial subjects such as spin-offs, hybrid securities, and hedge reserves. Item (3): Find and properly cite a published article by Jasper (“Jack”) Cummings. Answer . This article scrutinizes the connection of the U.S Constitution and federal taxation going back to the initial years of the state. Quoting Supreme Court cases, author Jack Cummings categorizes and classifies the sentiments for maximum availability by physicians and others ...

Law

Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety THAT PHARMACARE DID and examine whether PharmaCARE violated the law.  Be sure to identify the law in all these areas.   The ethical issue in marketing and advertising emanating from PharmaCare’s actions can be attributed to fair treatment in which the company corrupted the medical professionals in terms if illegally acquiring patient information for CompCare. Furthermore, the offensive actions committed by the company also includes concealing the changes in the composition of the drug and marketing it as treatment to ...

Business

Ethical Issues Ethical Issues in Marketing Ethical frameworks within the ambit of marketing would relate to practices that emphasize ‘transparent, trustworthy and responsible’ personal and organizational marketing policies and actions that exhibit ‘integrity and fairness’ to consumers and stakeholders (Parilti, Demïrgüne, & Özsaçmaci, 2014). Marketing ethics enjoins that a marketer should act in a way that he does not harm anyone and follows rules and regulations (Al-Nuemat, 2012). PharmaCARE circumvented the FDA’s scrutiny by creating a subsidiary, CompCARE, as a compounding pharmacy. PharmaCARE was aware of creating a fresh drug, and yet did not take FDA ...

Introduction

Corporate executives are required to maximize shareholder revenue while avoiding agent-principal conflicts, enhancing the reputation of the companies, and conforming to the regulatory standards. The situation in Enron indicates the corporate irresponsibility and managerial negligence that resulted in investor outrage and multiple lawsuits. The shareholders demanded legislation reforms, managerial accountability, and corporate power. The scandal in Enron encircled unethical and illegal activities punishable by law. This essay attempts to evaluate the virtue ethics that apply to the case of Enron.

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When it comes to the concept of virtue ethics, the postulates shift from individual, agent-centered, and action-oriented. The theory ...

It was a few years back that the United States market capital saw the domination of financial fraud revelations performed in so called big Companies of the economy. The stakeholders of the Companies like investors, affiliates in the market, and communities had to incur huge historic losses. The top notch corporate leaders were also the ones affected. The corporate veil was lifted in most cases and many of them had to suffer jail term. Industries were affected in the sense that many big names in the industry, including the biggest American audit firm were desperately out of business. The ...

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Will Manuel Perez prevail in invalidating the arbitration clause? Why or why not? Identify the ethical concerns regarding Walexron’s approach to the arbitration process and recommend actions Walexron could take to remedy the ethical concerns.

Manuel Perez has high chances of invalidating the arbitration clause in question for several reasons.

Firstly, the case materials indicate that there is no applicable arbitration clause at all. Thus, in Staschiak v. Certified Logistics, the court made a ruling that if there is a special disclaimer in the employee handbook, it may not be considered as a part of the employment contract. In addition, this ruling stipulated that the employment agreement should contain a specific reference that ...

Introduction

Employment at will doctrine enables an employee to ensure that a different employee is executed for any provided reason aside from an illegal motive or no reason without any legal capabilities. The same legal decision or no provided support by organizations allow employees to drop positions in jobs at any given time without any provided reason annulled of penalties that are considered legal (Halbert & Ingulli, 2012). Employees, with employment at good doctrine, have the capability to transform its terms as well as the policies of an organization without giving notice. Benefits, as well as wages, can be integrated at ...

Characteristics of a Whistleblower

Whistleblowing is defined as an unauthorized external or internal disclosure of information which relates to an unethical practice of a superior or a co-worker which has either occurred or is being contemplated (Apaza & Chang, 2011, P.35). Internal disclosure is less damaging than the release of information to outsiders. There are three main characteristics of a whistleblower. The first feature is dissent. In this case, a whistleblower adopts a dissident voice in the society which makes him/her disregard societal taboos and expose matters which are considered secretive. Their dissent makes them value the public interest more than personal loyalty or ...

The History of Whistleblowing

Whistleblowing is a significant accountability tool in today’s corporate world. The practice is traceable to as early as the eighth century. However, in essence, it truly came into light when the Lincoln administration adopted the first ever whistleblowing law in 1863. Dubbed the Federal False Claims Act, the law outlawed the use of false statements in the name of blowing the whistle against an organization. In 1989, the Bush administration adopted the Whistleblowers Protection Act (1989). This law acted as a form of protection to federal whistleblowers who expose the government’s wasteful and fraudulent practices (Barnett, 1992). ...

History

Food for the Poor is an interdenominational, Christian charity whose core undertaking is to provide food, medicine, and shelter among other services to poor people living in the Caribbean as well as Latin America regions. Food for the Poor is among one of the largest international relief non-profit organizations in the United States. The company was started in the early months of 1982 by Ferdinand Mahfood with the purpose of strictly aiding the poor who were living in Latin America as well as the Caribbean (Dear 1). Soon after, clergy members drawn from many Christian churches and denominations joined ...