Business Ethics Chapter 4

How does the disloyalty argument against whistleblowing receive support from the law?

Employees of a corporation are by legal definition agents of that corporation.

The main motivation for there to be whistleblower-protection laws is that whistleblowers _______.

benefit society

All whistle-blowing policies should include _______.

a guarantee against retaliation

The biggest weakness in the disloyalty argument against whistleblowing is that _______.

an employee differs in many ways from an agent

A whistle-blower is primarily motivated by _______.

ethical concern

Some corporations have an ombudsman, whose role is to _______.

hear complaints

Which of the following is necessary for whistle-blowing to occur?

information

Employees who are most upset with a company will most often _______.

simply leave the company

Loyalty to a corporation can sometimes lead to whistleblowing if _______.

the whistleblower wants to see change in the corporation

The main reason that companies should have a whistle-blowing policy is that _______.

wrongdoing harms them