Abstract

Whistleblowing behavior has become an important subject in internal and external stakeholders of an enterprise today, when morality values become conscientious responsibility. News about the enterprises in which malpractice, bribery and inappropriate behaviors to work morality in recent years, has increased the importance of this concept. This study aimed to theoretically explain the interaction between whistleblowing behaviors and work morality in the organizations. For this purpose, first of all, work morality and whistleblowing topics have been explained and secondly, the interaction between whistleblowing behavior and work morality ics has been analyzed in a theoretic ground with being managed suitable for work morality and the role of work morality in creating whistleblowing behavior subtopics. Keywords: Morality, Work Morality, Business Ethics, Whistleblowing, News Spreading

Highlights

  • The fast changes which we experience in ever field with globalization forced us to become an information society

  • When we look into the table, we can say that business ethics concept is originated from principles based on thinking and philosophy and work morality concept is originated from religion and religious beliefs

  • Baumhart lists in his work, which he conducted in 1961 in the enterprises in USA in order to research work morality,behaviors of senior managers, morality structure of industry, behaviors of other employees who are at the same level with management, lack of written morality rules in the enterprises and manager’s having personal needs as factors which direct managers to unethical behaviors (Çelik, 2010:23)

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Summary

Introduction

The fast changes which we experience in ever field with globalization forced us to become an information society. Changing competition rules and cultural, social and economic transformation in the world make it difficult to sustain their existence for the enterprises. In such an environment, both and enterprises and individuals have degenerated by leaving moral values which are our core values. Economic problems changed our values and exterminate the mutual trust between people. It is whistleblowing to inform the internal and external authorities about the insidious and illegal practices in the enterprise. This phenomenon is seen in the enterprises in which there is no work morality. Whistleblowing concept will be mentioned and later, the interactions between these concepts will be discussed

What is moral and ethics?
What is work morality?
What is whistleblowing?
Wrong behavior to be reported or complaint
Whistleblowing behavior and work morality interaction
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