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Jul 7, 2019 · Regarding identity, the psychological definition of whistleblowing implicates two groups: the group (or its members) who committed the wrongdoing, and the group represented by the agency to which the wrongdoing is reported.
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Cultivating a Sociological Imagination. Week 6, Lecture 2. The Sociology of Play. Why is play important? To play is to be in the world. Playing is a form of understanding what surrounds us and who we are, and a way of engaging with others. Play is a mode of being human...
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Aug 30, 2023 · Whistleblowing is an important form of radical political activism, influencing social reform by fundamentally changing the way we see our world. This article contributes to understandings of whistleblower-activism in cases of wrongdoing on the part of state institutions.
- 1 The Moral Choice View
- 2 The Standard Theory
- 3 Complicity
- 4 Integrity
- 5 Whistleblowing as A Civic Duty
- 6 Good Faith and Loyalty
Whistleblowers are often caught in dilemmas between conflicting civic and organizational duties , between integrity and loyalty, and often their good faith is questioned. Sissela Bok (1980) was the first author to point out the predicament whistleblowers face in their moral choices. She argues that whistleblowers must evaluate three aspects of thei...
Bok ’s work on secrecy and lying in the early 1980s contributed to create the new field of applied philosophy, opening up a space for discussion between professional philosophers and business scholars. It is not surprising that her early work on whistleblowing had a large echo in business ethics. Richard De George (1990, 2014) was among the first t...
Michael Davis has argued that the focus on harm prevention excludes actions generally considered to be whistleblowing (M. Davis 1996: 10). His complicity account is meant to shift the focus from the prevention of the harm to the responsibility in the wrongdoing. Under a complicity account, whistleblowing is obligatory when it is the only way to avo...
Any justification of whistleblowing we have reviewed so far insists on the principle of responsibility in one way or another. A whistleblower is responsible to act in the public interest , to avoid harm , or to escape complicity in wrongdoing . However few authors till recently, with the exception of the early Bok , have explored the virtues of whi...
The civic nature of whistleblowing is also crucial for Candice Delmas (2015), who argues that whistleblowing is a form of political vigilantism that challenges the state allocation of power, and—by transgressing the boundaries of state secrets—determines the proper scope of secrecy and the purpose to which institutional resources of the state are d...
One of the most debated aspects of whistleblowing concerns the weight we should give to the reasons for disclosure . De George (2014), Bowie and Duska (1990) argue that whistleblowing should be governed by appropriate moral motives : the good faith requirement is meant to rule out malicious intentions and disclosures motivated by personal gain. Any...
Dec 27, 2019 · The term “whistleblowing” was introduced in the domain of business ethics to describe the action of those professionals who voiced their concerns about weaknesses and errors in an artifact's design posing serious threats to customers' safety (Vanderkerkeove 2006, Chapter 1).
A widely cited definition of whistleblowing is as follows: the disclosure by organization members (former or current) of illegal, immoral or illegitimate practices under the control of their employers, to persons or organizations that may be able to effect action (Near and Miceli )
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Feb 13, 2020 · The most commonly used definition of whistleblowing is: “disclosure by organization members (former or current) of illegal, immoral or illegitimate practices under the control of their employers, to persons or organizations that may be able to effect action” (Near and Miceli 1985: 4).
