individual becomes a whistleblower when they report a person or organization for wrong-doing, misconduct, corruption, unethical or illicit activity. Whistleblowers can expose the information internal to the organization or external to regulators and the media. Whistleblowers are unselfish, courageous and necessary. In many cases, a whistleblower feels the organization is violating the law or endangering the welfare of others. (Halbert, 2012) Blow the whistle1 The cases, U.S. ex rel. Edwards v. JPMorgan
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extent to which the whistleblower would be protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Characteristics For many years, individuals have raised concerns about misconduct, unethical or illegal practices observed at their place of employment to reporters/media, employers’ ethics hotline, management, via labor law posters, or the Office of the Whistleblower. This included employees from private companies, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies. Employees can report unethical actions regarding
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and/or a direct threat to public interest, such as fraud, health and safety violations, and corruption. Whistleblowers may make their allegations internally to other people within the organization, or externally to regulators, law enforcement agencies, media outlets or to groups that are concerned with the issues they are bringing forth. In this paper I will describe key characteristics of a whistleblower and give details on a recent case. History of Whistle blowing and Recent Case The Key characteristics
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the whistleblower to seek protections. Despite the negativity and retaliation, whistleblowing is the right decision because it exposes the wrongdoing of the employer. A whistleblower is a “person who reveals to a government agency or news media, confidential information of wrongdoing or conduct he or she regards as unethical”. They are referred to in derogatory terms such as “rat”, “stool-pigeon”, “snitch”, “fink”, and even called disloyal (Liuzzo, 2012, pg 28). But those terms do a disservice
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Is it worth blowing the whistle? Ethics, values and beliefs all play a role in accounting. But when it comes being a whistleblower you can see where these things can start to conflict with one another. Even though there are laws to protect a whistle blower very few people do and those who do blow the whistle aren’t always happy after it’s done. At the same time those who do report do receive benefits and can say they truly have honesty and integrity. Ethics is more than just what’s right
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governance are intrinsically linked. The indications are that the use of monetary incentives is not the most effective model to enforce whistleblowing as an effective deterrent, which can be supported by the poor statistical reception under the Federal False Claims Program and Informant Claims Program models (Awner & Dickins, 2011, p. 37). The indications of this are the measures that are being supported by s. 992 of the Dodd-Frank Act are not appropriate because they are not directly dealing with
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The news media has caused a great controversy over the last past six months. People have criticized the media for misleading the public for giving unsupported facts. The truth is, the media do give precise information to the public. It's the type of sources where the news come from. The news media are essentials of mass media that emphasis on distributing news to the public. Newspapers, broadcast news, social media, are different types of media. These mass media have influenced the lives in America
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Jennifer Archuleta Professor Musgrave English 205 December 13, 2011 The Effects of Media on Body Image Imagine growing up in a modern day society. Everywhere you look there are images of beauty, representations of how beautiful people are supposed to look; flawless and thin. You grow up believing that this unattainable image is the only image of beauty. As you look in the mirror and see only flaws in your reflection, you rack your brain of ways to make yourself more beautiful. This becomes your
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The local media has always been the platform where the society gets their information from, it has always been deemed a credible source to get such information. The media in this era especially in recent years has taken a back bench to social media. Social media sites go everywhere with everybody on their smartphones, as such this is how persons get their news; this is why fake news have taken precedence over the facts that would have been presented on the local media. Local media journalist has
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discussing the advantages and disadvantages of using traditional media, to get the news out to a significant number of the population. Recent reports of negative effects caused by one of the company’s medications need to be addressed. News reports have alleged that one of the individuals is a well-known public figure. Traditional media can include magazines, newspapers, radio and television. There are some great advantages on why these media outlets would be great in reaching our audience regarding this
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