October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
8h 21m
English
Whistle-blowing is ethically ambiguous.
Today’s ethics of organization debate pays great attention to the duty to be a “whistle-blower” and to the protection of the whistle-blower against retaliation or suppression by his boss or by his organization. This sounds high-minded. Surely, the subordinate has a right, if not indeed a duty, to bring to public attention and remedial action his superior’s misdeeds, let alone violation of the law on the part of a superior or of his employing organization. But in the context of the ethics of interdependence, whistle-blowing is ethically quite ambiguous.
To be sure, there are misdeeds of the superior or of the employing organization that so grossly violate propriety and ...
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