Whistleblowing is a subject that is increasingly on the minds of senior executives.
There is a greater recognition that whistleblowing policies and processes – either internal, outsourced or hybrid – need to be put in place if business is to filter out malpractice and wrongdoing in the office and workplace.
Why is this new consciousness occurring?
You only have to take a look back at the past decade to see a rise in news connectivity and witness the increased public awareness and visibility of fraud, sexism, racism, bullying in the workplace, ageism, and health and safety violations.
Only last month (March 2022) the UK saw the Ockenden Report into the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust (SaTH) Baby Ward state that 'there was a lack of effective investigation and governance at the trust and a culture of not listening'1.
We might naturally wonder if a robust, impartial, publicised, and anonymous whistleblowing hotline system might have made an enormous difference to the result.
Let us be clear. Wrongdoing in the office and workplace has not begun recently. It has always been there.
It is simply a case that public awareness of wrongdoing has grown enormously, and because senior executives are part of the public – there is no demarcation line between you as a person and you as an executive – many in the business community are now confronting issues because they understand they need to come to grips with...
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