What is a whistle blower? What is a whistle blower? To the untrained eye, you may think that a whistle blower is a person who controls a sport or game with a loud device called whistle. In reality, a whistle blower has become an important part of the American business landscape. So what is a whistle blower? According to Blacks Law Dictionary, a whistleblower is an employee who turns against their superiors to bring a[n] problem out in the open. BusinessDictionary.com states that a whistle blower
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the one that was accused of this scandal. Greenberg allegedly booked loans as revenue, steered clients to insure with whom AIG had payoff agreements, and told traders to inflate stock prices. There was a regular SEC investigation and a possible whistleblowing that was taken place. There was $1.64 million paid
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A Primer on Sarbanes-Oxley The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was declared a law in 2002 (Orin, 2008). The primary purpose of this new law was to convey meaning to restoring faith in corporate America’s financial endeavors (Orin, 2008). The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was meant to aid and protect investors, who suffered extreme losses because of corporations having poor financial performances, which was the case before the law was enacted (Orin, 2008). Distinctively, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was meant to concentrate
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effective corporate whistleblower program. We can see in the case that WorldCom didn’t really have a program at all which really impeded Cynthia from reporting what she had found. Today thanks to the Sarbanes-Oxley act more companies have an effective whistleblowing program. That way if someone suspects fraud, they don’t have to go to their supervisor, who may be involved in the fraud, but can instead go through
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2001): * Employers may not discriminate based on an employee’s age or disability. * Public employees are protected under whistleblower statutes that prevent a public employer from making reprisals against public employees who take certain whistleblowing actions. * Employees may not be fired for attending a judicial proceeding under court order. b. The primary action(s) that you should take to limit liability and impact on operations; specify the ethical theory that best supports your decision
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine Strayer University Professor LEG 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance The Employment-At-Will doctrine continues to be favored by employers and employees in various forms thru out numerous types of companies. The doctrine gives employers and employees the right to terminate terms of their employment “for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all” (Halbert Ingulli, 2012, page 46). There are some restrictions to the at- will doctrine in which an employer
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without troubling superiors. Whilst performance criteria like KPI’s will forever push employees to “get the job done”, today’s workplace reforms counter Jackall’s ideas. These changes largely regard matters like workplace safety, harassment and whistleblowing, which twenty years on from when Jackall published his theories of patrimonial bureaucracy are built into the organisational structures and policies of middle-to-large organisations. Schwartz’s notion of organisational totalitarianism hold less
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make a public commitment to ethical business by formulating codes of conduct and operating principles. In doing so, they must translate into action the concepts of personal and corporate accountability, corporate giving, corporate governance, and whistleblowing. There are numerous ethical issues that affect our community and organization. In the remainder of this paper, we will discuss three ethical issues within today’s business environment that affect our community and organization. The first ethical
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The role of women in leadership • Faith-based decision making in business (hiring and customers served) • The use of immigrant labor in California • Sexual harassment • Executive versus worker compensation disparity • The gender wage gap • Whistleblowing The paper must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least five scholarly sources (three of which must be found in the Ashford University
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Cherelle Squire safeguarding adults and promoting independence Unit 11 P4,P5,M2 In this essay I will be outlining key legislation and regulations which govern safeguarding adults work, outlining working strategies and types of abuse procedures used in health and social care to reduce the risk of abuse. Also I will be describing legislation and regulations, working strategies and procedures used in health and social care to reduce the risk of two types of abuse. Relevant legislation
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