Whistle_Blowing_And_Its_Ramifications

Whistle Blowing And Its Ramifications Everyday people make decisions that affect their lives in someway. Should I get the salad or the cheeseburger for lunch' Should I go out to the movies or stay in and watch TV' These simple decisions often happen without serious thought. Why' Because they are not life changing choices. But what happens when the decision is not so easy to make, when it’s life changing. Sometimes a person’s conscious greatly affects one’s decision making. Especially when the topic of whistle blowing arises. The dictionary defines whistle-blowing as the release of information by a member (or former member) of an organization that is evidence of illegal or immoral conduct in the organization, or conduct in the organization that is not in the public interest. It is hard to imagine the agony of discovering wrongdoing in your profession. The choice of keeping quiet can put others at risk and your conscious will kick in and spawn guilty feelings. But blowing the whistle could mean professional destruction. Surprisingly whistle blowing is on the rise. This is thanks to high-profile insiders who have gone public with dirty details of corporate corruption and because of a new law that offers whistle, people, blowers, blowing, blower, sarbanes-oxley, life, about, suspected, report, public, protection, organization, government, companies, act, wrongdoing, much, moral, happens, even, corruption, company, being, workers, within, whistle-blowing, vast, told, tobacco, time, through, thought, should, short