J'accuse

Soeken, Donald R.

doi:10.1037/e400742009-003

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“…Moving from occupational experiences (e.g. Rosecrance, 1988;Soeken, 1986) to theoretical grounding (e.g. Graham, 1986), the models highlight the stages involved in whistleblowing.…”

Section: Apjba 82mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociocultural dynamics in whistleblowing: insights from India

D’Cruz

Bjørkelo

2016

Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration

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Purpose – Through state-of-the-art insights on whistleblowing in India, the purpose of this paper is to highlight the role of sociocultural dynamics in whistleblowing. Design/methodology/approach – A review of literature on wrongdoing and whistleblowing in India revealed various aspects of the national context pertinent to different stages of the phenomenon. Thematic analysis of these dimensions, allowing for a nomothetic approach, resulted in identifying six sociocultural themes common across wrongdoing and whistleblowing. Findings – Sociocultural dynamics impacting the emergence, persistence and recognition of wrongdoing, the decision to blow the whistle, engagement in whistleblowing and the outcomes of whistleblowing encompass social relationships, power distribution, materialistic considerations, sense of propriety and fairness, public/civic orientation and ideological leanings. These factors coexist with international influences, institutional framework, workplace ethos and individual orientation. The presence of wrongdoing and the trajectory of whistleblowing in India are affected by the aforementioned factors. Research limitations/implications – The paper is based on secondary data rather than empirical endeavours. Social implications – By underscoring the relevance of contextual dynamics, in particular sociocultural factors, in the whistleblowing process, the paper indicates an important basis for appropriate interventions to manage wrongdoing and encourage whistleblowing while protecting whistleblowers and ensuring attention to rectifying wrongdoing and sanctioning offenders. Originality/value – Apart from providing a contemporary and comprehensive overview of whistleblowing in India, the paper uncovers the significance of sociocultural factors which have been overlooked so far in the substantive area. Moreover, a contextualised process model of whistleblowing is proposed based on the analysis. In subsuming temporality, context and outcomes for all stakeholders, the model displays complexity and causality, emphasising holism.

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“…Moving from occupational experiences (e.g. Rosecrance, 1988;Soeken, 1986) to theoretical grounding (e.g. Graham, 1986), the models highlight the stages involved in whistleblowing.…”

Section: Apjba 82mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociocultural dynamics in whistleblowing: insights from India

D’Cruz

Bjørkelo

2016

Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration

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“…As in workplace bullying cases (Mikkelsen and Einarsen, 2002), whistleblowers may also have had their basic assumptions about the world shattered (Alford, 2001). One of the main aims of the recovery process can therefore be to make sense and to come to terms with what has happened to him or her (see, for example, Soeken, 1986). To illustrate the time line of a typical whistleblower common narrative, many talk "about events that happened five to ten years ago, and often longer than that.…”

Section: Jmp 283mentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace bullying after whistleblowing: future research and implications

Bjørkelo

2013

Journal of Managerial Psych

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Structured abstractPurpose: This viewpoint paper presents directions for future research by linking the academic fields of workplace bullying and whistleblowing together. This article also suggests implications as to how to deal with the health consequences that can develop after such workplace experiences.Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes empirical research on the link between whistleblowing and workplace bullying and suggests how to deal with the health consequences that develop in relation to workplace bullying after whistleblowing. Findings:Empirical research has documented the link between whistleblowing and workplace bullying and the devastating effects on health that may follow (e.g., depression and symptoms analogue to post traumatic stress). Implications for practice are; (1) to provide clear examples of unwanted workplace behavior and; (2) to help clinicians to gain a balance between the client's need to re-tell and the need for psychological treatment. Research limitations/implications:Future studies on workplace bullying are encouraged to;(1) be aware of the link to potential previous whistleblowing and; (2) study therapeutic interventions for employees exposed to bullying and who also have reported wrongdoing at work. Practical implications:

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“…Before proceeding to a review of some of the past literature in this area, we think that it is useful to preface such a review with a clear‐cut philosophical decomposition of the three component decisions which, as we have seen, are inevitably involved in any act of whistleblowing. There is, it is true, some similarity between the component but separate moral decisions which we identify here and certain psychologically based studies which have sought to understand the mentality and, in particular, the (often traumatic) experiences of the whistleblower as a person, most notably the work of Donald Soeken (); and also with the pragmatically oriented early work of work of J Vernon Jensen () on the topic dating from the same period . We will suggest, however, that the existing literature, while thus at some points showing some awareness of the distinctness of the component decisions, often tends to run these together as though the act of whistleblowing involved just one single (and for some authors self‐evident) moral decision.…”

Section: The Component Decisions Of the Act Of Whistleblowing: A Philmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…Also worthy of mention for its convergence with some aspects of the analysis of the present article is the work of Donald Soeken () which has recently been adapted in the work of Bjorkelo et al . () on the psychological impacts on whistleblowers of their actions.…”

Section: A Sample Of the Literature On The Subjectmentioning

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Whistleblowing: a critical philosophical analysis of the component moral decisions of the act and some new perspectives on its moral significance

O’Sullivan

Ngau²

2014

Bus Ethics Eur Rev

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Professors International GuildDiscussions of whistleblowing whether in academic literature or in more popular media have tended to very one-sided assessments of the moral worth of the act. Indeed, much of the current literature concentrates on psychological or managerial aspects of whistleblowing while taking for granted this or that moral position or eschewing any normative commitment on the question. The purpose of this article is firstly to reemphasise the importance and complexity of the normative foundations of whistleblowing acts; and secondly, through a moral philosophical analysis of the component decisions that make up any act of whistleblowing, to contribute to a more balanced and less polarised treatment of the topic. It is argued that the polarisation of views on the topic is in part due to a failure to decompose the act of whistleblowing into a number of inevitable component moral decisions leading up to the act. It is furthermore argued on the basis of the analysis that it is impossible to state a priori as a matter of general principle that whistleblowing is always morally right (a good act) or morally wrong (a bad act). The article will close with a reflection on the degree to which the weighing up of good and bad in the act of whistleblowing differs sharply among cultures; and with a conjecture as to a possible relation to a people's history which may serve as a pointer to interesting future empirical research on the topic.

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J'accuse

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Sociocultural dynamics in whistleblowing: insights from India

Sociocultural dynamics in whistleblowing: insights from India

Workplace bullying after whistleblowing: future research and implications

Whistleblowing: a critical philosophical analysis of the component moral decisions of the act and some new perspectives on its moral significance

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