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Company Loyalty and Whistle Blowing Issues

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the most difficult aspects of business ethics to analyze appropriately. It carries far more issues with it than simply what is right or wrong. Bibliography lists 5 sources. BWwhistl.rtf  Whistleblowing and Company Loyalty By: C.B. Rodgers - February 2002 -- for more information on using  this paper properly! Introduction The question of whether or not whistleblowing violates company loyalty is far more complicated than it would initially appear. After all, if an employee calls  in the "authorities" (whoever that may be) to "do something about" any number of possible infractions being committed by the company it is clearly an example of an employee being  unwilling to support the corporate philosophy and the ways in which the company conducts business. Or does it? How has the company violated the good faith of the employee  to cause him or her to feel the need to "blow the whistle" about a particular practice or corporate "indiscretion"? Such a question has proven to be fodder for the  cannon of business ethicists, government regulators, and corporate leaders for decades. What must be considered is the broad range of factors that go into any individual or group of people  deciding that something their employer is doing is not right and must be stopped. In some circumstances, the issue may be one of right and wrong -- think of the  popular movies "Silkwood" or "Erin Brockovitch." Each of those presented movie audiences with images of whistleblowers who understood that a much more powerful entity than themselves had been committing deadly  acts against innocent people. "Blowing the whistle" cost Karen Silkwood her life, while making Erin Brockovich a millionaire who needed a Hollywood movie star the magnitude of Julia Roberts to