Unit Three: Case Incident 2: Whistle Blowers: Saints or Sinners

Unit Three: Case Incident 2: Whistle Blowers: Saints or Sinners

Kaplan University

MT302 Organizational Behavior

February 19, 2011

Unit Three: Case Incident 2: Whistle Blowers: Saints or Sinners

In this week's case "whistle blowing" is a topic that start being used after Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing and WorldCom. These cases made a change in procedures and laws to protect investors, and employees. I heard of it, because I used to work for a public company where we did have a 1-800 number called hot line for Whistle Blowers. Employees were trying to prevent investors against bad practices that would make an employee to lawsuit the organization. These bad practices may be sexual arrestment, favoritism, racism, and corruption. This is a way to have a clear and transparent company which investors, vendors, customers, and employees trust one hundred per cent. Individuals should report unethical practices by their employer to outsider’s base on the crime. "Whistle blowing" was one of the solutions to preventing this act.

I believe that Mr. Duran is innocent from unethical practices from extorting financial gains from TAP. According to Senator Charles Grassley, "having informants report on company wrongdoings is the best way to prevent illegal activity. There can never be enough bureaucrats to discourage fraudulent use of taxpayer's money but knowing colleagues might squeal can be deterrent" (Judge, 2007) p.179.

In this case, it clearly shows by its lesson that "whistle blowing" is good for an organization and those who are unethical to "whistle blow" to extort money are most likely behaving with the same attitude as organizations who commit unethical practices or crime.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is simply an idea when someone gets into his or her head and subconsciously makes it a reality. A "whistle-blower" has the intention to find incriminating evidence, so even if the company is innocent, the whistle-blower may make false assumptions, even...