Tsahuridu, Eva E. and Vandekerckhove, Wim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0106-7915 (2008) Organisational whistleblowing policies: making employees responsible or liable? Journal of Business Ethics, 82 (1). pp. 107-118. ISSN 0167-4544 (Print), 1573-0697 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10551-007-9565-3)

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Abstract

This paper explores the possible impact of the recent legal developments on organizational whistleblowing on the autonomy and responsibility of whistleblowers. In the past thirty years numerous pieces of legislation have been passed to offer protection to whistleblowers from retaliation for disclosing organisational wrongdoing. An area that remains uncertain in relation to whistleblowing and its related policies in organisations, is whether these policies actually increase the individualisation of work, allowing employees to behave in accordance with their conscience and in line with societal expectations or whether they are another management tool to control employees and protect organisations from them. The assumptions of whistleblower protection with regard to moral autonomy are examined in order to clarify the purpose of whistleblower protection at work. The two extreme positions in the discourse of whistleblowing are that whistleblowing legislation and policies either aim to enable individual responsibility and moral autonomy at work, or they aim to protect organisations by allowing them to control employees and make them liable for ethics at work.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	[1] First published: 1 September 2008. [2] Published as: Journal of Business Ethics, (2008), Vol. 82, (1), pp. 107-118.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	whistleblowing, moral autonomy, ethical distance, moral agency
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business > Department of Human Resources & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Business > Centre for Work and Employment Research (CREW) > Work & Employment Research Unit (WERU)
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Last Modified:	14 Oct 2016 09:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/2742

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