The Whistleblowing Guide: Speak-up Arrangements, Challenges and Best Practices(Wiley Finance)

Choose the best speak-up arrangements for your organisation The last five years have seen dramatic and fundamental changes in whistleblower procedures for organisations. Prompted by a spate of important public disclosures, organizations are now mandated by law to implement effective arrangements enabling employees to speak up about perceived wrongdoing. Currently few resources exist to help with this. To help fill the gap, The Whistleblowing Guide examines the opportunities and challenges associated with different types of whistleblowing and speak-up arrangements, making recommendations based on best practices you can trust.  Identifies the major organisational, structural and cultural obstacles to speaking up through speak-up arrangements Proposes effective whistleblowing and speak-up arrangements Explains the specific policy and legislation requirements that can promote or impede the effective implementation of speak-up arrangements, and how these can be translated into commercial and public organizations across sectors and cultures Makes a clear distinction between internal and external reporting arrangements  The Whistleblowing Guide offers conceptual clarification about these key issues, including a focus on internal and external speak-up procedures, organisational response and communication, impartiality and trust. 

Table of Contents:
About the Companion Website vii Chapter 1 Introduction: The Importance of Speak-up Arrangements 1 Speaking Up in Organizations 1 Speak Up Arrangements: A New Perspective for Theory and Practice 2 Sustainable Speak-up Systems: A Model 3 Rationale 4 Who Should Read This Book? 7 Purpose of the Book 8 About the Authors 9 About the Book 10 Endnotes 11 Chapter 2 Why Speak-up Systems: Why Now? 13 Introduction 13 Background: Why Speak-up Systems, Why Now? 13 Endnotes 37 Chapter 3 A Comparative Study of Speak-up Arrangements in Banking, Engineering, and Healthcare Sectors 41 Introduction 41 Banking 42 Engineering 55 Healthcare 66 Conclusion 76 Endnotes 78 Chapter 4 Challenges and Obstacles to Effective Speak-up Arrangements 83 How Do People Speak Up? 84 Whistleblowing Is a Protracted Process 88 What Expectations Do Speak-ups Entail? 92 Challenges of Operating Speak-up Arrangements 97 Barriers to Responsiveness 106 Strategies for Trustworthiness (and Their Potential Pitfalls) 108 Facilitators of Responsiveness 117 Using Speak-up Data 119 Bringing It All Together: A Model for Developing Sustainable Speak-Up Systems 121 Conclusion 122 Endnotes 123 Chapter 5 Speak-up Procedures: A Guide for Professionals 127 Executive Summary 127 Benefits of Effective Speak-up Arrangements: 128 Recommendations 129 Endnotes 137 Chapter 6 Conclusions 139 Academic Literature 139 Empirical Work 142 A Framework for Understanding Speak-up Arrangements 144 Practical Relevance and Recommendations 146 Endnotes 147 Bibliography 149 Appendix 1 Speak-up Arrangements – Key Theories 163 Appendix 2 Project Methodology 167 Appendix 3 Other Resources 169 Index 171

About the Author :
KATE KENNY is Professor in Business and Society at NUI Galway. She has a Phd from Cambridge University's Judge Business School and has held fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University and Judge Business School. She researched whistleblowing for ten years with projects funded by ESRC, British Academy, and Leverhulme Trust. Her book, Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory, is published by Harvard University Press in 2019. WIM VANDEKERCKHOVE is Reader in Business Ethics, University of Greenwich Business Faculty, and co-director of the Centre for Research in Employment and Work (CREW). He has published extensively on whistleblowing, socially responsible investment and global ethics and serves as an expert for Transparency International Belgium and the Council of Europe. MARIANNA FOTAKI is Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School and a Senior Editor for Organization Studies. She has a PhD from London School of Economics and was a Network Fellow at EJ Safra Centre for Ethics, Harvard University (2014-15). She has worked as a medical doctor for Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins Du Monde, as advisor to the governments of Armenia, Georgia and Russia, and has co-directed the Centre for Health and the Public Interest (2014-2017).