Whistleblowers

SLIDE 1 TITLE PAGE This is an overview of the new and improved VAMC Policies and Procedures for Proper Conference Attendance: Ethical Conduct for VA Employees. I will be using the 8 step Approach for Making Ethical Decisions in Business as the map for this presentation (Treviño & Nelson, 2007). SLIDE 2 THE ISSUE It has come to light in the last few weeks, that several Veterans Affairs Medical Center employees from across the nation have been going to conferences over the years and are not…

than making money. However, Jane filed paperwork to Federal Communications Commission in Florida to file a whistleblower claim against Fox News. Then the Monsanto corporation tried to settle with Jane only if she did not talk about Monsanto and their procedures, but she refused. At first, she was awarded her whistleblower status, but after Fox News appealed the decision she lost her whistleblower status and reward. The court determined that misrepresenting news is not a contradiction of the law.…

While the Republic of Ecuador is relatively new to modern technological development in Latin America, its Internet has continued to expand in the past three years. The republic’s information and communications technology sector has experienced large growth due to the government’s efforts to push the domestic Internet connectivity to 50% of households by 2015. As the Republic of Ecuador breaks into the digital age, the issue of privacy in the digital age becomes increasingly important. It is…

family and I. One con argument is that programs like this can cause government to bend rules and rewrite laws to be in line with an organizations objective. The programs our government uses have not so good intentions as pointed out to us by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. He informed the American people our worries about the Patriot Act were true. The NSA had been doing dragnet style surveillance to many of this country’s citizens. All of this can happen to any one of us without even…

Mike Pompeo wants Edward Snowden to be executed. Obama even said that he would not pardon the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. "Edward Snowden is nothing but a traitor." Said Donald Trump, lets put this in another view, if you were a citizen and not president how would you feel if the government was spying and listening to your cellphone conversations.…

There are many different scenarios that can lead to unethical behavior in accounting. For example, if a CEO makes 200,000 grand in one year but falsifies his records to indicate that he only made 100,000 then that is unethical. Many corporations find loopholes to try to squeeze through because they do not want to have to pay taxes or other fees. Embezzlement is also another type of unethical behavior; this is what led Enron to destruction. There are rules in place to prevent these types of…

Rights of Citizens What are your rights? Citizens have many rights, all of which come from the US Constitution. The Constitution was taken into action in 1789, and is the supreme law of the US, containing 7 articles. The focus is gonna be over free speech, which is summarized in the first amendment, Freedom of the Press. Freedom of the Press is the right to express your opinion without the government getting into it. No matter how much they say we have free speech, it will never really be…

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, people are encouraged to be “whistleblowers” and to tattle on those who do not conform to society and ideals. I believe that this is an accurate description of the society in which we live today and whole-heartedly agree with Bradbury’s views of what society will become if we continue on this path. I think that Bradbury included the aspect of society in which people are encouraged to be mindlessly happy because that is the direction in which he saw society turning,…

In our world, there is a constant fight between good and bad. Martin Luther King’s quote “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matters” explains the importance of facing the evil with all our power. Because the time we stop raising our voices against evil and treat it with silence is the time when the Dark wins over the Light. I strongly believe that no matter how small an act is, if it has bad continuances then it should immediately be faced and undone if possible.…

The Patriot Act (which was supposedly intended to protect the innocent citizens of america from “harmful” terrorists) was enacted just one short month after a series of terrorist attacks took place, including the 9/11 attack and the anthrax mailing at the Senate building in Washington. Congress was scared into believing that the only possible solution to preventing this from happening again would be to vote for an act that seemed like the smart political move at the time (only when explained by…