Why your Organization may need an Ethics Consultant.
Finally a great story on how whistleblowers help recover $3 billion. This gave me pause to ask a few questions for consideration, from an ethical perspective.
With the whistleblowers I know, all they wanted to do is “the right thing” and were ostracized and punished for doing so. It got so bad that the government passed the “whistleblower law” to help protect them, if that is even possible.
Here are my reflections for consideration and discussion:
1. Why call them whistleblowers? Why not, protectors of the business, or standard bearers for good, or Guardians of the code or?/ Point being, should we be accentuating the positive and not the negative for what they try to do?
2. Shouldn’t we be rewarding them for what they do and therefore build a more positive, proactive environment for all? What’s the old phrase, “catch someone doing good?”
3. If rewarding was the norm, leaders would:
*have more people looking on how to make make things better
*be more of being a mentor, cheerleader, and coach.
*imagine going to work knowing that part of your job would be to see how one could do
a job better, safer, more other focused and certainly more friendly as the modus operandi.
4. I can’t understand why whistleblowers are retaliated against for trying
to do “the right thing.”I bet those leaders and companies who seek to
retaliate all have a code of ethics/conduct and wonderful mission statements,
but who are they really trying to kid???
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