Journal article
Whistle-Blowing: Individual Morality in a Corporate Society
Business horizons, Vol.29(2), pp.4-9
03/01/1986
DOI: 10.1016/0007-6813(86)90063-7
Abstract
Whistle-blowers, those individuals who report real corporate illegalities, require protection from employer retaliation. The failure to protect whistle-blowers stems from a loss of a sense of social responsibility due to growing US isolation and material self-centeredness. The passive allowance of job termination for whistle-blowing forces employees who uncover wrongdoing to choose between loyalty to self, society, and employer. Betraying corporate loyalty through whistle-blowing most often is accompanied by banishment from the corporation. The courts have ruled that employees are due recovery if their discharge harms or interferes with an important community interest, or ''public policy.'' However, most courts have not recognized whistle-blowing as within the scope of public policy. Protection of whistle-blowers surely serves the public interest in that its citizenry is kept accountable to the law.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Whistle-Blowing: Individual Morality in a Corporate Society
- Creators
- Nancy Hauserman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Business horizons, Vol.29(2), pp.4-9
- DOI
- 10.1016/0007-6813(86)90063-7
- ISSN
- 0007-6813
- eISSN
- 1873-6068
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science Ltd
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/1986
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984962895402771
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