WhistleblowingPurpose The purpose of this paper is to attempt to address basic empirical and theoretical queries on why and how insiders have the courage to voice their concerns and reveal corruption on corruption-related crimes that have been committed in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach This ...
This way, whistle-blowers can start playing an integral role in keeping licensed institutions honest, ethical, and safe, providing information to the regulator for accountability to the public. Whistle-blowers have become powerful agents for detecting fraud and corruption. Our l...
Indeed, the general public today regards whistleblowers as heroes and not as traitors. According to Roberta Ann Johnson, this shift in their public reception is directly related to "a general cynicism and a lack of trust in government," as she explains in her book, Whistleblowing: When It ...
Most of these stories are not Courage with a capital C—the front-page news stories of speaking up at work through whistle-blowing and confronting massive ethical breeches with career-threatening consequences. They are stories of courage with a lowercase c—choices to take a small uncomfortable ri...
applications. The Schaeffler Group, one of Germany's and Europe's largest industrial companies predominantly in familiy ownership, is shaped by social responsibility and thinking in the long term. We have committed ourselves to compliance with high social and ethical standards in our Code of Conduct...
I was part of ethical whistleblowing networks. We were sharing information we thought was in the public interest with the public and journalists, which I stand behind. A lot of this information should not be behind the walls of proprietary tech companies where the decisions are being made...
Whether you’re a government entity, a big publicly-traded company, or a small private business, bottom line is probably one of your top priorities. Did you know that a speak up culture can help you save money? According to a study of internal whistleblowing by professors Kyle Welch and ...
But you may want to go a step further and ensure that your money is used to help businesses that reflect your ethical beliefs. In the past, that simply meant screening out the shares of companies based on factors such as sector, but these days the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG...
Leuren Moret is an International Radiation Expert and Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab whistleblower. After visiting the Peace Museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1991, she realized the horrific truth about nuclear weapons. She made the decision to dedicate her life to radiation issues and educating th...
Although PG&E likes to insist it is a tolerant and responsible company, it has a long history of retaliating against any employee who blows the whistle on its irresponsible practices. In the 1997 Nevada County fire case, one of the prosecution's star witnesses was Jim Sprecher, a PG&E enginee...