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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on taking sides issue 10: does blowing the whistle violate company loyalty yes: sissela bok, from whisteblowing and professional responsibility, new york university education quarterly (summer 1980).explain why you side with this viewpoint; reference. Taking Sides Issue 10 al Affiliation Taking Sides Issue 10 First and foremost, whistleblowing was explicitly defined as “a case in which a member or employee of an organization (such as a business, corporation, or branch of government or the military), or else an independent professional (such as an engineer) working for an individual client or organization, goes beyond normal reporting channels and takes directly to the public a warning or complaint about misconduct, or health or environmental hazards” (Peacock, 2003, par. 1). As such, one agrees with Bok (1980) that blowing the whistle clearly violates company loyalty since there are policies and procedures that are definitely in place and communicated to the employees in terms of following protocols in reporting or disclosing matters regarding unethical behavior or misconduct supposedly perpetuated by any member of the organization.

Usually the structured channels for reporting complaints and alleged violations are consistent with reporting to superiors. and if the superiors are found to be the ones violating policies or are guilty of misconduct, there are again, channels for disclosure to even higher authorities or third parties (within the organizational setting) that could assist in resolving urgent issues. As emphasized by Bok (1980), whistleblowing is unjustified when the following conditions are present: “it is done out of malice. it is in error. it merely concerns personal matters that should remain private. The potential whistleblower should go through normal channels of reporting first (which usually do work), and “go public” only as a last resort” (Peacock, 2003, pars. 18 & 19). As such, blowing the whistle and going public immediately violates loyalty since the action done could create more chaos and controversies to issues which could apparently be resolved within the organizational setting for merely pointing out unethical behavior or misconduct done by erring members of the organization.

References

Bok, Sissela. (1980). “Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibilities.” In Ethics Teaching in

Higher Education, Daniel Callahan and Sissela Bok, eds. New York: The Hastings Center.

Newton, L., Englehardt, E., & Pritchard, M. (2009). Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business

Ethics and Society. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.

Peacock, K. (2003). Chapter 1: Whistle-Blowing. Retrieved from University of Lethbridge, Department of Philosophy: http://classes.uleth.ca/200303/phil3406b/Whistleblowing.