Should You Speak Out or Forever Keep Your Place? An Ethical Dilemma about Whistleblowing
Abstract Whistleblowing has become a common term in today’s society. However, it could be hard to decide rather whistle blow or keep your peace. This paper will provide ideas about how to make better of internal and external whistleblowing. In other words, should you or should you not do it? Is doing the right thing always right? What are the consequences? Whistleblowing can be a very complex and scary proposition; you must understand all your options and consequences before you take any actions. Wrongdoings happen all over the place, the question is will you be a whistleblower or are you going to keep your silence? However, if you choose to keep your mouth shut there is still a risk. If other people discover it and know that you did not expose this information which you know of, you will still get in trouble. Undoubtedly, whistleblowing is for organizations so that helps prevent frauds and misconduct in gen...