Whistleblowing And Employee Loyalty Duska. The employee makes his/her concerns known to his/her superiors 3. Duska sees whistle blowing as an obligation one has to the public to prevent harm. The issue Duska focuses on is when whistleblowing is permissible and why it is in need of justification in the first place. Ronald Duska | Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty. Problems with loyalty and whistle blowing Duska (1997) writes, "most business ethicists claim that employees have some obligation to the com pany or employer, which is usually characterized as an obligation to loyalty. Bok: An employee is morally Permitted to blow the whistle if: -The harm that will be done by the product to the public is serious and considerable -The employee makes his/her concerns known to his/her superiors -But does not get any ⦠Whistle blowing violates that obligation." Duska notes that discussions of whistleblowing generally revolve around three topics: 1. attempts to define whistleblowing more precisely, 2. debates about whether and when whistleblowing is permissible, and 3. debates about whether and when one has an obligation to blow the whistle. Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores | ⦠Ronald Duska | Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty. Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty â Ronald Duska -Central Question: When is it morally permissible to blow the whistle? This does not Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics (forthcoming) Abstract ... Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty. Ronald Duska argues that the employee does not have an obligation of loyalty to a company, and that whistle-blowing is permissible, especially when a company is harming society. Robert A. Larmer - 1992 - Journal of Business Ethics 11 (2):125 - 128. He argues against those who see whistleblowing as an act of disloyalty to a company by saying that corporations are not entities deserving of loyalty in the first place. employee is in the relationship to get paid (Duska, 1990). Sissela Bok | Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility . Whistleblowing and Loyalty. The making of a profit, a lord and vassal [or a parent and her child]. Discussions of whistleblowing and employee loyalty usually assume either that the concept of loyalty is irrelevant to the issue or, more commonly, that whistle-blowing involves a moral choice in which the loyalty that an employee owes an employer comes to be pitted against the employee's responsibility to serve public interest. Duska has argued that firms or organizations cannot incur a duty of loyalty. Lecture number: 22 Pages: 3 Type: Lecture Note School: The University of Oklahoma Course: Phil 1273 - Introduction to Business Ethics Edition: 1 Because loyalty is a tie between two parties that requires each party to sacrifice self-interest, it is for this reason that a corporation cannot be an object of loyalty and hence an employee does not owe an obligation of loyalty to their employer (Duska, 1990). Multiple Choice. (emphasis in original)Roughly, the main idea here is that whistle-blowing cannot breach employee loyalty because blowing the whistle about one's employer's wrongdoing and being loyal to them serves the same goal, the moral good of the employer. Employee Attitudes Toward Whistleblowing: ⦠Discusses the concept of employee loyalty in the Bok and Duska readings. 0 0 585 views. o Recall Sissela Bok who held: o An employee is morally Permitted to blow the whistle if: 1. Employees do not owe a duty of loyalty to employers. "Whistle-Blowing and Employee Loyalty" (Duska) WB: A is an act of whistle-blowing iff A is an act by an employee of informing the public of immoral or illegal behavior of an employer or supervisor. Introduces Friedman's ideas of social responsibility. Whistle-Blowing and Employee Loyalty Ronald Duska There are proponents on both sides of the issue-those who praise whistle-blowers as civic ⦠Ronald Duska. The harm that will be done by the product to the public is serious and considerable 2. Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty â Ronald Duska -Central Question: When is it morally permissible to blow the whistle? Essay Questions. Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing.