Define whistle-blowing and discuss two examples of persons who are considered to be whiste-blowers.

Whistle-blowing refers to the disclosure of illegitimate practices by a current or former organizational member to some person or organization that may be able to take action to correct these practices. Examples of whistle-blowing in the text include Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, the former tobacco executive who leaked evidence to 60 minutes that consumers had been misled about the addictiveness of nicotine for many years. Catherine Galliford blew the whistle on sexual harassment at the RCMP. Sherron Watkins, a vice-present at Enron spoke out against fraudulent accounting practices and notified the CEO. And Cynthia Cooper, an internal auditor at WorldCom who discovered fraudulent bookkeeping entries and discussed her findings with the company’s controller and with the CFO, but was told not to worry about it and to stop her review, went to her boss’s head and called the board chair’s audit committee.