Question

Whistleblowing is when a person exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public. While whistleblowing is the right thing to do it can often come with repercussions to the whistleblower. Provide a response to the following questions:

• What moral obligation, beyond the scope of your job, do you have to your employer? Explain your answer.
• Depending on how a company reacts, discuss how whistleblowing could affect a company’s future?

Answer 1

Beyond the scope of job, an employee has moral obligation to not expose any private information of the company to outsiders, which can harm the company's reputation.

Whistleblowing refers to exposing secret, illegal activities of a company to the public. One recent example of it is an ex-employee of Facebook shared how Facebook is extracting and selling personal information of its users.

This practice negatively impacts a company's future as it exposes all illegal activities being carried out by the company under its good market image and makes users or consumers aware of what is wrong, which decreases consumer confidence in the company.