The Whistleblowers

The Whistleblowers

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  • Date Submitted: 03/04/2009 7:08 PM
  • Category: Business
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Whistleblowers are an important part of society. They alert the public to what is wrong within organizations and incite change for the better. If an employee decides to blow the whistle, they will have to suffer through the emotional hardships of accusations of disloyalty, retaliation from peers, and possibly loss of their career. However they will also be fighting for the common good and the greater moral responsibility to humanity. Sometimes whistleblowers will suffer through the great costs for this even greater cause. This is the reason why whistleblowers are an important part of society. Without them, many violations and corruption would probably have gone unreported for a long period of time if they are ever reported. It is a whistleblower’s courageousness that helps to keep society from falling apart. Whistleblowers require protection from harm because they expose themselves to risk too much and legislation have been passed providing them with this protection. Ideally, a whistleblower should not require protection. If all organizations provided a means so that all disputes and voices could be heard peacefully, an employee would not need to go public and blow the whistle. The best solution would be to solve all problems internally and in order to do this, organizations would have to re-organize themselves. The existence of whistleblowers revealed this fault in society and hopefully in the future this fault will be mended.
A whistleblower has to carefully think about many possible consequences of his or her actions among other ethical considerations. A whistleblower actually has a very tough path to travel: questions of ethics and loyalty to answer, a difficult moral decision to make, and then possible retaliation from peers. A whistleblower’s life should be made easier. Some organizations provide mechanisms to help ease the stress of whistleblowing. These mechanisms encourage employees to openly discuss their concerns and the violations they have...