the company and its workers. 2. What does the word Whistleblower mean (legally speaking)? Give an example of whistleblowing. A whistleblower is a person who has knowledge of illegal activity going on within the company that management and other executives may not be aware of and they notify the appropriate person to put a stop to the illegal activity. An example of whistleblowing would be an employee knows that two other employees steal clothes from the store when they close together. The two
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First thing that came to mind when developing my thoughts on dissent was that dissent is whistleblowing. This misconception I now know is due to the media’s portrayal of dissent and whistleblowing in popular culture. Dissent myths are the first important thing as an employer I would like to discuss. Understanding the myths of dissent as an employer could help me understand that dissent is not
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Whistle blowing is an act to disclose an organizational wrongdoing to parties that can take action. Sherron Watkins was the vice president of Enron Corporation that became a whistle blower in 2001. She sent an anonymous memo to Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay regarding the misstatements on the financial report. Enron hired lawyers from Vinson & Elkins to do an investigation on the financial misstatement allegations (Ackman, 2002). According to the memo from the investigations, after Watkins identified
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Chapter 1: Perspective on Business Ethics and Values * Identify the good, tragic, comic, satirical and farcical elements in the way in which people and organization deal with matters of ethics and morality * Stakeholder theory * Business case for business ethics * Arguments about the moral status of business and organization Moral conflict between self-interest and public duty, between social and environment duty what takes precedence? Should a business case be proven before an
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serve or protect the interests of groups other than themselves. Social audit: Systematic assessment of a company’s activities in terms of its social impact. LECTURE OUTLINE Pay for Whistleblowing In the legal use of the term, a whistleblower is someone who engages in a “protected activity.” The number of whistleblower suits has increased dramatically in recent years under federal and state laws aimed at uncovering fraud and protecting
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We will be discussing business ethics and social responsibility in our presentation today, and relating these theories specifically to the News of the World phone hacking scandal that broke in 2007. This scandal involved journalists and editors of the publication, News of the World illegally hacking into people's phones in order to access information that would not have been available to them otherwise. Though exact numbers are not known, lists of phones were confiscated listing thousands of mobile
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Congressional hearing, to investigate the Air Force A7D Aircraft Brake Problem. In 1972, Vandivier wrote a well-crafted article, "Why Should My Conscience Bother Me," which gave his version of the Goodrich incident. As one of the most famous whistleblowing cases in the literature, The Aircraft Brake Scandal has been hailed as a paradigm case of the courageous individual challenging an unscrupulous corporation. Whistleblower Vandivier is treated as a hero, a man who lost his job for doing the right
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Bather, Andrea; Tucker, Robyn (2011), Legitimacy theory and a compliance analysis of Tesco's 2008 Business Review, International Review of Business Research Papers, 2 (2) : 137-156. Bather, Andrea; Kelly, Martin (2006), A dialectic analysis of the whistleblowing phenomenon, Australian Accounting Review, 16 (38) : 59-65.
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| Employment-At-Will Doctrine | | | Alishia Bush | | Kimberly Ford, Esq. LEG 500 10/23/2013 | | Employeement-at-will Doctrine/Evaluation The employment-at-will doctrine was established giving employers autonomous power to terminate employment at will for no reason, a good reason or for being found morally wrong, even if they aren’t wrong in the eyes of the law. Within this doctrine the employer or employee, without a written employment contract, can terminate
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| According to Investopedia, a stakeholder in a company is defined as a party that has an interest in an enterprise or project. The primary stakeholders in a typical corporation are its investors, employees, customers and suppliers. However, modern theory goes beyond this conventional notion to embrace additional stakeholders such as the community, government and trade associations. Stakeholders have different views on what is valuable because they have multi-dimensional stakes and different relationships
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