This presentation discusses whistleblowing and provides examples of whistleblowers. It defines a whistleblower as an employee who reports misconduct, such as illegal or unethical practices, to people able to enact change. Whistleblowing can benefit society by ending wrongdoing, though whistleblowers also face risks like retaliation. The presentation examines factors for employees to consider when deciding whether to blow the whistle or remain silent. It profiles two medical whistleblowers, Jeffrey Wigand who exposed health issues in the tobacco industry and Robert Misbin who warned about a diabetes drug's dangers.

1. Presentation by:
Ashwini Kamath U
II MBA ‘A’

2. “Too see wrong and not to expose it ,is to become a
silent partner to its continuance”.
-Dr. John Raymond Baker

3.  A whistleblower is an employee, former employee, or
member of an organization, especially a business or
government agency, who reports misconduct to people or
entities that have the power and presumed willingness to
take corrective action.
 Generally the misconduct is a violation of law, rule,
regulation and/or a direct threat to public interest, such as
fraud, health/safety violations, and corruption.

4.  Whistleblowing leads to good and bad results. First, the
benefits of carefully considered whistleblowing can lead to
the end of unethical business practices. The lives of
individuals and whole communities have been saved by
whistleblowers.
 The actions of whistleblowers are potentially beneficial to
society. Businesses that engaged in unethical practices have
been shut down because of the actions of whistleblowers.

5.  Determining whether your company has the mechanism to
find out the whether the staff have wandered or otherwise
left the acceptable assumed track.
 Whistle blowing mechanism such as hotlines, ombudsmen,
administrating annual compliance. This mechanism should
be part of your companies strategy.

6.  An employee who witness unethical business practice at
work may want to think carefully before informing to the
authorities.
 Company loyalty is an internally held value.
 When should an employee blow the whistle? When should he
or she keep quiet?

7. 1. Magnitude of consequence
2. Probability of effect
3. Temporal immediacy
4. Proximity
5. Concentration of effort

8.  Jeffrey Wigand- “The Insider”
 FDA Whistleblower

9.  Jeffrey Wigand, vice president for tobacco research and
development at Brown & Williamson: Wigand became the
whistle-blower on Big Tobacco, telling how the industry
minimized tobacco's health and safety issues. His story was
told in the movie The Insider. The tale gets nasty. Wigand
was fired in 1993. His former employer publicized
unsubstantiated allegations of shoplifting and domestic
abuse from his past. He went on to assist the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration in its investigation of the tobacco
industry.
 Wigand now runs a nonprofit foundation in South Carolina
devoted to educating children about health issues, including
tobacco use and alcohol consumption.

11. Robert Misbin, medical officer, Food and Drug Administration:
The scientist blew the whistle on the dangers of the diabetes
drug Rezulin. He resigned from the FDA in the fall of 2000,
complaining that politics and bureaucratic concerns had
replaced sound medical judgment in approving drugs. At issue:
that drug maker Warner-Lambert Inc. had pressured the FDA to
approve Rezulin, despite a number of patient deaths from liver
failure. Rezulin was recalled in 2000, the same year that Warner-
Lambert was acquired by Pfizer.

12. An executive of a large company learns that the company is
violating the state antipollution law by dumping chemicals into
the lake bordering its plant. The state inspectors are being
bribed to ignore the violation. What are the executive’s options?
What are the consequences of each option? Which option
should the executive choose?