Whistleblowers

In this module we will discuss the difficulties of maintaining ethical autonomy and fostering environment where responsible conduct is supported from a perspective that is more geared towards the employee. Chapter 8: Safeguarding Ethical Autonomy in Organizations from The Responsible Administrator by T. L. Cooper (2012) When loyalty to the organization or a supervisor are at odds with the obligation to the public, employees may choose to blow the whistle as a means of coping. The decision to…

In the case study of Gilbane Gold, David Jackson, the engineer responsible for waste treatment in Z-Corp, was put in a very difficult situation. In the beginning, David was getting results from Frank’s waste water discharge tanks that showed that they have been releasing arsenic and lead at higher levels than what the city allows. The waste water ends up into the popular and profitable sludge product called Gilbane Gold. Gilbane Gold is sold as a fertilizer to farmers for about 75 years. David…

resignation and giving the correct information to other news outlets to tarnish Wall Street Journal (Boatright, 2011, p.50). When the WSJ articles came out, Artz began an investigation within the company to search phone calls made by P8G to see who the whistleblower was. To further investigate, they were granted a grand jury…

The film, No mas Bebes, focuses on a 1975 lawsuit that shed light on the unlawful and unwanted tubal ligations that occured at a Los Angeles hospital in the 1960s and 70s. Ten Hispanic women came forward to share their stories. Reminiscent of experiments done in Germany during WWII, when unwanted sterilization of ‘unfavorable’ races were conducted. Also similar to the “Mississippi appendectomy;” where women would be told that they needed an appendectomy and they would go in and tie their tubes.…

Definitions Corporate Accountability- When you have to be responsible for your stakeholders Fraud- A criminal acts to achieve more money Whistleblower- A person who knows that the company has been doing illegal acts and decides to tell the government. Canadian Tire Reflecting on Canadian Tire’s Code of Conduct What do I find Interesting about this company’s Code of Business Conduct? Something that I found interesting about Canadian Tire’s code of conduct is that integrity, honesty, and…

In April 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil spill also known as the BP (British Petroleum) oil spill occurred, the largest marine oil spill in history just 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana. For 87 days oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico leaving an environmental catastrophe and disrupting numerous industries. It is estimated 210 million gallons of oil spilled into the gulf for approximately 68,000 square miles; the environmental effects can still be felt by wildlife and locals in the area.…

"At the very bedrock of science is the concept of falsification" (Bulluz, 2017, para.20) Although the Stanford Prison study was appalling in its implications about human nature, and extremely harmful to the participants, the publication of fraudulent conclusions stating that the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine causes autism has caused unnecessary pain and death for almost twenty years, and will likely continue to do so for as long as the true cause of autism is a mystery. In 1998, the…

Privacity, its a right that every people should have, and nobody should attempt to it. Each government has to have control about their people and thats good beacause someone should control whats happening on a country, but when they "spy" people's private life it becomes something ethically wrong and politically illigal. Some agencies like N.S.A, C.I.A etc.. Do that and that's very wrong, its incorrect to stalk every peoples private life like getting in their private mails or look their private…

However, nurses must continue to provide care at any circumstances. Likewise, nurses might also experience another conflict at their workplace. For example, the role of a whistleblower is to report the negligence of others, including themselves, when violating ethical standards. For instance, an ethical whistleblower may notify to the corresponding authority, a nurse who fails to provide care to a patient due to their differences in healthcare beliefs. In the American movie trailer, for…

Bernard Madoff took notes from the Ponzi scheme originator, Charles Ponzi, by creating an investment Ponzi scheme. At the start of his career, Madoff was a broker who legally purchased and sold non-listed stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, soon he and his brother developed a technology that aided them in the competitive investment industry. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was a continuous process of acquiring new investors’ funds, to pay the old investors’ promised 10-15% return on investments; all…