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1. Introduction
2. Agenda
3. The labels used to describe whistleblowers
4. Loyalty - vice or virtue?
5. Other terms for whistleblowers
6. When is a whistleblowing act performed?
7. Why whistleblow?
8. The Maxwell case
9. Sherron Watkins and Enron
10. The Herald of Free Enterprise
11. The Lyme Bay Canoeing tragedy
12. De George's 6 conditions for whistleblowing
13. De George's condition no. 1
14. De George's conditions no. 2 & 3
15. Fernandes vs. Netcom
16. De George's condition no. 4
17. Types of whistleblowing covered by PIDA
18. De George's condition no. 5
19. De George's condition no. 6
20. The Engineering Company
21. Documents revealed during a High Court case
22. 6 stage framework and the Engineering Company
23. Whistleblowing - a positive or negative force?
24. Elements of ethical complexity
25. Organisational values/strength of practices
26. Floating responsibility
27. Paraphrasing Sarason
28. Reflections
29. References

Topics Covered

• The language of whistleblowing
• Loyalty
• Virtue or vice?
• When is a whistleblowing act performed?
• Why whistleblow?
• Costs of whistleblowing
• When might a whistleblowing act be justified?
• The Public Interest Disclosure Act (1998)
• Whistleblowing: a positive or negative force within society?
• Understanding what 'gives' when a potential whistleblowing scenario either dissolves or explodes
• Floating responsibility
• Reflections

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Series:

• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

Bite-size Case Studies:

• Blowing the whistle on corruption: the Enron story
• Tragedy in Lyme Bay: a whistleblowing cautionary tale

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Publication History

• Published on January 31, 2011