Whistleblowing: Perspectives and Experiences

The divulgement and deterrence of fraud and mismanagement is one of the vital challenges that the business conglomerates have constantly been confronting with, from times immemorial. Today’s businesses are also in no way different. And the lines of attack by which this challenge is dealt with irrefutably show the way to either the enhancement or the impairment of the corporate reputation. Whistleblowing, an essential constituent of corporate governance framework, which directs and regulates organizations, plays a significant role in curtailing organizational wrongdoings and promoting a culture of transparency, openness, accountability and corporate fairness. ‘Whistleblowing’, the expression entered in the lexicon of laws, politics, and corporate governance, with diminutive attention towards it, gained the real momentum in the recent past. Society has witnessed a tremendous shift in its approaches towards whistleblowing, specifically in this decade, when whistleblowers are perceived as an essential constituent of society’s self-repair system. The book “Whistle Blowing – Perspectives and Experiences” attempts to examine various aspects such as the need and significance of encouraging whistleblowing, the detrimental actions towards whistleblowers and the imperativeness of establishing codes of conduct as part of the governance system. It purports that whistleblowing may be perceived as a constructive mechanism that sanitizes the businesses environment by straightening out the prevailing as well as the potential organizational misconducts. Case studies portraying the experiences of whistleblowers how they blow the whistle, the repercussions of the act and the whistleblower protection legislation in various countries have been depicted in the book.