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Trasparenza, whistleblowing e pubblica amministrazione. Elementi per una riflessione
2018
This chapter focuses on recent legislation that has concerned certain levels of the Public Administration, with particular reference to those interventions that are based on a constant process of empowering people within the usual place of work. In this sense, the focus is particularly on the tool called whistleblowing. Specifically, it is a practice aimed at indicating the presence of the violation of one or more rules within the usual place of work. In the chapter I dwell on some problematic aspects related to the relevant legislation also through some comparisons with the US legislation.
Formare alla denuncia pubblica degli abusi nei luoghi di lavoro
2018
La denuncia pubblica degli abusi è una forma molto speciale di controllo organizzativo dalla straordinaria forza di contrasto della corruzione per la qualità delle informazioni che è in grado di fornire e per la capacità di contenere dall’interno gli abusi. In questo articolo vengono presentati i fattori personali, organizzativi, giuridici, sociali, politici e culturali che influenzano le decisioni di denuncia nelle organiz- zazioni e alcune proposte legate alla realizzazione di un programma di formazione alla denuncia pubblica degli abusi. L’autore sostiene che la formazione su materie come queste non dovrebbe proporsi di tradur- re in azione un atto assolutamente straordinario e indesider…
IL WHISTLE-BLOWING COME STRUMENTO DI CONTROLLO INTERNO DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI
2009
Il Whistle-Blowing come strumento di controllo interno delle organizzazioni Nelle organizzazioni pubbliche e private si consumano abusi di vario ordine e grado. Si tratta di condotte che non sempre sono definibili come reati in senso tecnico ma che tuttavia sono censurabili, al pari dei reati, perché capaci di produrre danni gravi alla società e alle stesse organizzazioni. Gli abusi cui si fa riferimento vengono commessi nell’abituale esercizio di funzioni istituzionali, manageriali, specialistiche e, perfino, esecutive. La tradizione culturale sociologica e criminologica li ha ascritti tra i cosiddetti crimini dei colletti bianchi, sebbene la locuzione abbia assunto nel corso del tempo anc…
Theories on Teaching & Training in Ethics
2008
The paper examines the education and training of adults in ethics. It applies to courses at universities and colleges as well as in the work place. The paper explores the evidence on our ability to strengthen moral behaviour through courses on ethics, finds it to be weak, so starts with the assumption that we cannot teach people to be ethical. The paper asks therefore what the objectives of a course could be and how best to achieve them. It examines the different theories in the literature, eventually settling on four objectives: increasing moral cognition; teaching a widening and strengthening of ethical practices; adopting teaching approaches that maximise learning impact, and developing …
Whistleblowing in the Context of Zimbabwe’s Economic Crisis
2007
Whistle blowing is a topic that has taken center stage in philosophical discussions on business ethics in recent years. It continues to provoke debate among academics because of its continued relevance to the present prevailing situations the world over. The recent upsurge in cases of corporate wrongdoings in Zimbabwe has seriously reactivated a concerted debate on the moral justification of whistle blowing. The whistle blower is, however, faced with competing and conflicting moral values and imperatives that make his decision to blow the whistle a morally excruciating endeavour. It is the contention of this article that, despite employees’ obligations of loyalty and obedience to their empl…
Behaviours and Beliefs Related to Whistleblowing Against Doping in Sport: A Cross-National Study.
2022
BackgroundWhistleblowing has been recognized as an important deterrent of doping in elite competitive sport. The present study examined athletes’ knowledge of external whistleblowing channels and on how and where to report doping misconduct, perceived trust in different whistleblowing reporting channels, whistleblowing behaviour and athletes’ reasons for reporting (or not) doping misconduct.MethodsAthletes from Greece (n = 480), the Russian Federation (n = 512) and the United Kingdom (n = 171) completed a structured questionnaire on demographics, knowledge of different whistleblowing channels, perceived trust in internal and external whistleblowing channels, past whistleblowing behaviour an…
Can we organize courage? Implications of Foucault's parrhesia
2012
Ethics in organizations, raising concerns, and whistleblowing have been previously theorized through Foucault's work on the power/knowledge bond. However, approaching these issues through the work from Foucault's third period on parrhesia, or fearless speech remains an underdeveloped route. This paper contributes to this emerging research stream. Based on Foucault's work on parrhesia, and the importance of courage for fearless speech to occur, we theorize the possibility of critique within organizations as a moment of disorganizing, which requires a chain of parrhesia where not only the speaker but also the hearer requires courage. The paper examines the possibility and risks of organizing …