Biblio

Sort by: Author Title [ Type  (Desc)] Year
Filters: Keyword is whistleblowing  [Clear All Filters]
Book
White, W. L. (1997).  Incestuous Workplace: Stress and Distress in the Organizational Family.
"Because whistle-blowers are rarely protected from retribution by the company, whistle-blowing is one of the purest and highest-risk forms of activism. Those organizations most hurt by whistle-blowers are those that provide no alternative to whistle-blowing to resolve concerns over potentially illegal or unethical actions. When all other doors of redress are shut, a company invites whistle-blowing." (p. 208)
Bok, S. (1989).  Secrets : On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation.
"The alarms of whistleblowers would be unnecessary were it not for the many threats to the public interest shielded by practices of secrecy in domains such as law, medicine, commerce, industry, science, and government. Given these practices, whistleblowers perform an indispensable public service; but they do so at great human cost, and without any assurance that they uncover most, or even the worst, abuses. While they deserve strong support in their endeavors, every effort should therefore be made to combat the problems they signal by other means." (p. 228)

See also: ethics, retribution, activism

Google ngram chart

Neighbor relation graph

SKOS Concept Scheme

SKOS concepts and relations

Concept Scheme: WorkCreatively.org business culture/management vocabulary

URI: http://workcreatively.org/ontology/business#

    WorkCreatively.org business culture/management vocabulary

whistleblowing

  • Concept: whistleblowing
    • preferred: whistleblowing
    • alternate: whistle-blowing
    • alternate: troublemaker
    • alternate: boat rocker
    • definition: an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it; "the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on"; "the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions i
    • related: ethics
    • related: retribution
    • broader: activism
    • closeMatch: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-whistle_blower-noun-1.rdf
    • keyword-171
    • linked content:
      • sense: whistle blower
      • sense: whistle-blower
      • sense: whistleblower
      • whistle blower
      • in scheme: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/
      • gloss: an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it; "the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on"; "the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals"
      • hyponym of: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-informant-noun-1
      • synset id: 110777400
  • W3C SKOS spec
    RDF source

    (C)2014 CC-BY-NC 3.0, workcreatively.org