Whistle Blowing- A Necessary Deadly Affair

We all usually talk about ethics, Gandhi’s principles and so many thoughts which are on the value system. Organizations expect from their employees that the relationship between them and their employees should be transparent and clear. But do they really expect a kind of loyalty or transparency? It remains a big question mark in today’s scenario. The answers from the employees would come ‘yes’ but in realty it’s a big ’No’. Organization want an employee to be a combination of programmed and logical character and why not because organization never want that their secrets out. As it would create a problem for them and of course on the other hand employees want their position to be safe along with their life. But still there are some people who took the courage to blow the whistle against the unethical practices in companies. Before taking up cases it is very important to know what Whistle Blowing is. In layman’s term if we say a pressure cooker blowing a whistle and saying that something is cooking if you won’t turn off the flame it would create a chaos. Similarly whistle blowing is a practice which is usually done by the employees if their organization is indulging in some unethical practices. This paper is an attempt to explore the implications of whistle blowing.