PHIL215 Lecture : Module 4 notes – Loyalty and Whistle-Blowing.docx
14 Apr 2012
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Corporate loyalty case studies of whistle blowing. Loyalty is an expectation of the employer. There s a fundamental vagueness about its meaning. Difference of opinion between employer and employee. With professions, requirement of loyalty is written into the code of ethics. Should it extend to cases where whistle-blowing has occurred. Whistle-blowing an employee calling public attention to his company s alleged wrong-doing. Silkwood (a movie based on an activist named karen silkwood: she was a whistle-blower on negligent practices in the nuclear power industry. First challenger shuttle explosion in 1986: roger boisjoly worked for a company called mortin thiokol a supplies to. Two separate parts that are made out of inflexible material can be sealed or held together by an o ring. Temperature (freezing cold in january) caused the rubber to peel away from one of the segments allowing flammable gas to escape and ignite the explosion of the entire shuttle.
