You Decide: Whistleblowing Ethics & Legal Issues in the Professions Duane Portwood Wooden, the largest employer in Littlebury, makes wooden objects from shaving and shaping logs. The factory processes about 1,000 logs a day and is open 24 hours, 7 days a week. The entire factory, rafters to floor, is covered by at least an inch of wood dust. The wood dust is not just sitting on everything, but it is also in the air the employees are breathing; they have complained for years, but the owners
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Leadership Ethics As children we are taught the difference between right and wrong very early in life. Knowing the difference doesn’t change in the business world. A lot of times in business, leaders find themselves in situations where they have to choose an ethical or unethical way out. The Ethical Behavior and Social Responsibility slide says, “If it looks, smells, or acts illegal, it probably IS.” I believe in most ethical cases, the individual knows when they are doing something illegal or
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Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley: Examining Publicly Traded Companies Abtract A whistleblower is a person who exposes misconduct, alleged dishonesty or illegal activity occurring within an organization. A whistle-blower will speak out, typically to expose corruption or dangers to the public or environment. The alleged misconduct, danger or corruption may be classified in many ways; such as, a violation of a law, rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to public interest, such as fraud
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An explanation of what relationship the Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley Acts have to financial markets and what are the similarities or differences between these Acts. The Dodd-Frank Act was proposed by Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in the House of Representatives and former Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, in response to the financial and economic crisis witnessed from 2007-2010. Sarbanes-Oxley established heightened standards for the boards
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contractors who defraud governmental programs. The law includes a qui tam provision that allows people who are not affiliated with the government, called "relators" under the law, to file actions on behalf of the government informally called "whistleblowing” especially when the relator is employed by the organization accused in the suit. Qui Tam. Qui Tam is a writ whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed (wiki 2015). Its name is an abbreviation
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formed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the disclosure he has done in front of a legal agency against the wrongdoing that happened within his own organization. The whistleblowing act provides protection to an employee from the discrimination he has to suffer from his employer during any phase of the investigation. If at any time the employee feels that he is being discriminated against for exercising his rights he can
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The movie “John Q” is filled with ethical and moral dilemmas throughout its course. It gives us a clear notion of the duties of public servants, and private administrators with regards to ethical decision they face in the daily execution of duties in communities they represent. In this analysis, I will explore the ethical and moral values of the main characters in the movie in performing their various official capacities. I will also elaborate on health insurance coverage by defining and reviewing
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objectives and to mitigate risk to the extent possible. This includes : - Management reviews - Reviews of the design and implementation of the company's risk management approach and business and functional audit committees. - Risk management - Whistleblowing - Audit Source: http://corporate.arcelormittal.com/investors/corporate-governance/risk-management-and-audit 2. Independence of the Board The board of directors consist of 11 members, which are divided into 3 non-independent members (Lakshmi
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Page 1 Edward Joseph Snowden is a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who disclosed a global surveillance by the NSA, such as PRISM, XKeyscore, Tempora, and the interception of US and European telephone metadata. Page 2 1. In May 2013 Snowden took a leave of absence, telling his supervisors he was returning to the mainland for treatment, but instead left Hawaii for Hong Kong on May 20. 2. On June 22, US officials revoked Snowden's passport. Although Snowden had applied
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------------------------------------------------- Assignment 1: Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley LEG 500 LEG 500 Whistle blowing has its origins from an example of law enforcement blowing a whistle when someone finds a crime or some wrongdoing process in a government. So when wrongs are taking place in government, the public they serve suffers (Chambers, 2014). The government is supposed to be open. Whistleblowers have to care about the issues that are going on in the workplace for
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