Whistle blowing refers to an employee reporting illegal or unethical behavior by their employer or supervisor to the appropriate authorities. It can be done internally by reporting within the organization or externally to outside parties. There are guidelines for when whistle blowing is appropriate, such as when harm is serious, formal channels have been exhausted, and the employee has documented evidence. Organizations should prevent the need for whistle blowing by creating a strong ethical culture, open communication channels, and independent ethics committees to investigate complaints.

1. WHISTLE BLOWING

2. WHISTLE BLOWING
MEANING?
●Whistle blowing is the act by an employee of informing the public or
higher management of unethical or illegal behaviour by an employer or
supervisor.
●According to code of ethics of the professional engineering societies,
●Engineers have the right to disclose the illegal and unethical behaviour of
organisations.
●Management thinks - It can lead to distrust,disharmony and an inability
of employees to work together.

3. General Definition
●Whistle blowing is alerting relevant persons to some moral or legal
corruption, where 'relevant persons' are those in a position to act in response,
if only by registering protest.
Standard Definition
●Whistle blowing occurs when an employee or former employee conveys
information about a significant moral problem outside approved organization
channels to someone in a position to take action on the problem.

4. TYPES
1)Internal whistle blowing
2)External Whistle blowing
3)Open whistle blowing
4)Anonymous whistle blowing

5. When Should Whistle Blowing Be Attempted?
1)Need:Should be clear about the problems to be conveyed.
2)Proximity: Should be in clear position to report the problem.
Should have the expertise and firsthand knowledge about the
problems.
3)Capability: Should have reasonable chance in success.
Should be able to take care the financial security of their family.
4)Last Resort: Attempted only for rare emergencies.
Should try to work out formal and informal organization channels.

6. Moral Guidelines
1)Permissible
● If the harm done is serious and considerable.
●Employees report their concern to their superiors.
●No satisfaction from their immediate superiors
2)Oligatory
●Documented evidence.
●Employee has strong evidence that making the information public will infact
prevent the threatenend serious harm.

7. Prevention
●Create strong ethics culture.
●Remove rigid channels of communication.
●Create ethics review committee with real freedom to investigate
complains and independent recommendations to top management.
●Willigness on the part of management to admit mistakes,if
necessary.

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