Whistleblowing is a form of organizational dissent that is rarely successful, instead usually leading to disaster for the whistleblower. Organizational theorists seldom have addressed the question of how to improve whistleblowers' strategies. A useful general perspective for doing this is to conceive of bureaucracies as authoritarian political systems. The concept of political jiu-jitsu, from t...

“The greatest rogue in the whole land is, and will remain, the informer”. This is a quote attributed to Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874), author of the lyrics of the German national anthem. It is frequently used by those who want to block any discussion on the necessity to support whistleblowers and the concept of whistleblowing in Germany. After two dictatorships using denunciations as a ...

RESUMO Apresenta-se uma reflexão de base empírica sobre o fenómeno do hacktivismo em Portugal. A partir abordagem assente nos princípios da Grounded Theory, artigo procura ilustrar processo reflexivo que conduziu a investigação, num trabalho netnografia, serviu como descoberta para novos atores e lugares observação. Tendo primeiro foco atenção as atividades online conotadas com grupos portugues...

whistleblowing by health professionals is an infrequent and extraordinary event and need not occur if internal voices are heard. mannion and davies’ editorial on “cultures of silence and cultures of voice: the role of whistleblowing in healthcare organisations” asks the question whether whistleblowing ameliorates or exacerbates the ‘deaf effect’ prevalent in healthcare organisations. this comme...

Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers' agitation continues, at great personal cost, to prompt major intrainstitutional and public inquiries that reveal problems with the application of medical ethics at particular clinical "coalfaces". Virtue ethics, emphasising techniques promoting an...

Abstract It is often claimed that rewards for whistleblowers lead to fraudulent reports, but several US programs this has not been a major problem. We model the interaction between whistleblowers, sanctions against reporting, judicial errors, and standards of proof in court case on whistleblower’s allegations possible follow-up allegations. Balancing whistleblower rewards, courts’ essential the...

Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers’ agitation continues, at great personal cost, to prompt major intrainstitutional and public inquiries that reveal problems with the application of medical ethics at particular clinical ‘‘coalfaces’’. Virtue ethics, emphasising techniques promoting ...