Silencing a whistleblower : a story of hypocrisy / Cobus de Swardt ; foreword by Beatrice Edwards, former executive director of the Government Accountability Project.
De Swardt, Cobus, author.
2021
JF1525.W45 D4 2021
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Title Silencing a whistleblower : a story of hypocrisy / Cobus de Swardt ; foreword by Beatrice Edwards, former executive director of the Government Accountability Project.
Author De Swardt, Cobus, author.
ISBN 9783030765408 (electronic bk.)
3030765407 (electronic bk.)
9783030765392
3030765393
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76540-8
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-76540-8 doi
Call Number JF1525.W45 D4 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 174/.4
Summary This book examines how insufficient policies can lead to the alleged abuse of power in organisations. When independent ethical structures and processes are missing or weak, practices of abuse, misconduct and cover-ups can easily arise at the leadership level. Even organisations that specialise in good governance are no exception, as illustrated by this case study on arguably the world's most influential anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International (TI). Written by the former Managing Director of Transparency International, this book chronicles its ethical breakdown over a 5-year period starting in 2015. By comparing TI's whistleblower policies with its internal whistleblower practices, it demonstrates how the organisation gradually became trapped in a vicious cycle of secrecy, corruption and lies. The author chronologically tracks TI's practices, drawing on 12 whistleblower complaints filed with TI since 2017, as well as communications with TI, international donor agencies, and other international civil society organisations from 2015 to 2020 to do so. The chronological format aptly reveals the snowball effect that ethical weaknesses can create over time, as well as the emotional warfare that whistleblowers are typically subjected to. The unfolding chronology also shows what it means to be a whistleblower for an organisation that avoids public transparency, reporting on and scrutiny of its own practices.
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Saturday 1 May 2004: Berlin
1993-2020: TI: A Short History of Holding the Powerful to Account
October 2014
December 2016: Breakdown of Ethical Conduct
January
14 March 2017: Organisational Coup
15 March
May 2017: Becoming a Whistleblower
June
September 2017: Fire a Whistleblower
October
December 2017: New Beginning
January
September 2018: Avoid Responsibility
8-20 October 2018: Criminalise Whistleblowing
21 October 2018
June 2019: Celebrate Whistleblowers
July 2019: Accountable Now
August 2019
May 2020: Manage Independent Investigations
2 June 2020
19 March 2021: "Mission Accomplished"
WBC Day 1480: 10 April 2021: Reflections.

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