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Whistleblowing: The Neglected Facilitator of Compliance

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The ethical and legal conduct of organizations is the focus of compliance, as it is broadly understood, with whistleblowing considered one of its most frequently employed elements. Employees are likely to know the most about misconduct and are thus an organization’s best source of information of ethical and legal problems. Whistleblowing and its effective management is important so that organizations receive the necessary information to identify and address incidents of non-compliance in a timely manner. This chapter explores the role that effective management of whistleblowing can play in ensuring organizations comply with their legal and ethical obligations, as well as the incidence and reasons of inaction and silence by observers when misconduct exists. It also provides some preliminary findings from the Whistling While They Work 2: Improving Managerial Responses to Whistleblowing in Public and Private Sector Organizations, currently under way in Australia and New Zealand that shed light on the elements that improve whistleblowing effectiveness.

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    The Whistling While They Work2: Improving Managerial Responses to Whistleblowing in Public and Private Sector Organizations was funded by the Australian Research Council and 23 partner and supporter organizations. The author of this chapter is a member of its research team. Details at: www.whistlingwhiletheywork.edu.au. It builds and extends research undertake in the project Whistling While They Work 1:Enhancing the Theory and Practice of Internal Witness Management in the Australian Public Sector.

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Tsahuridu, E. (2019). Whistleblowing: The Neglected Facilitator of Compliance. In: Krambia-Kapardis, M. (eds) Financial Compliance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14511-8_7

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