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