whistle blowing...positive??

Accessory

in light of of recent events, is whistleblowing in an organisation positive or negative?

OhNoYouDidn't

Accessory wrote: »

in light of of recent events, is whistleblowing in an organisation positive or negative?

In before the lock. What recent events?

jmayo

Whistleblowing should be rewarded because we need people to stand up and expose the cr** that is going on within our large organisations.

We need the likes of Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom and Sherron Watkins of Enron who spilled the beans on some of the cr** that was going on.
We need brave souls like Christoph Meili, a night guard at a Swiss bank, who exposed fact that nice bunch of Swiss bankers were destroying records belonging to holocaust victims.

We need somebody high up like W. Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) to spill the beans on what our government are really doing.

Maybe then the ones at the top will watch their step and behave.

nesf

In future please don't post identical threads in different forums.

I'm leaving this open but honestly it's a bit of a pointless question since things like whistle blowing really are down to individual cases.

Zynks

I think it is positive in the same way as conscientious objectors in the army. If you don't believe on it, if you feel it is wrong or it is hurting people unnecessarily, yes it should be done, and they should be rewarded for it. However, if this is done to get back at people after being complicit with it, well, these are not any better than the ones they are denouncing.