Book description
A Step-by-Step Guide to Blowing the Whistle—and Surviving the Storm That FollowsCorporate whistleblowers save lives, prevent fraud, and preserve the environment. But these results come through a long, difficult, draining, and often frightening process that leads many unprepared would-be whistleblowers to give up. Fortunately, they now have the support they need. This unprecedented and authoritative guide covers every step of the process—finding information to support your claims, determining whom to blow the whistle to, dealing with attacks from opponents, enlisting allies, understanding the law, and more.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Dr. Jeffrey Wigand
- Introduction: Whistleblowing in Corporate America
- Chapter 1 Deciding to Blow the Whistle
- Chapter 2 The Red Flags
- Chapter 3 What to Know Before You Blow
- Chapter 4 Where to Go When You Want to Blow
- Chapter 5 Getting Help in Blowing the Whistle
- Chapter 6 Whistleblowing and the Law
- Chapter 7 Corporate Whistleblower Reform
- Conclusion
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Whistleblower Toolkit
- Tool A: Filing a Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Complaint
- Tool B: Sample FOIA Request Letter
- Tool C: Public Interest Organizations
- Tool D: Online Resources
- Tool E: Federal Statutes with Corporate Whistleblower Provisions
- Tool F: International Ombudsman Association Standards of Practice
- Tool G: International Best Practices for Whistleblower Policies
- Tool H: Model Whistleblower Hotline Policy
- Tool I: Model Citizen Enforcement Act
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Government Accountability Project
Product information
- Title: The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2011
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781605099873
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