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Author Kenny, Kate (Kate Marguerite), author.

Title Whistleblowing : toward a new theory / Kate Kenny.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  174.4 KENNY    Check Shelf
Description 282 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Speaking out: what we know -- Whistleblowing: the subject and power -- Global finance: norms of complicity -- The whistleblower as professional: subjection to norms -- Whistleblower retaliation: impossible speech and violence -- Speaking out in public: toward possible speech -- Media, recruitment, and friends: excluding the public whistleblower -- Turning inward: excluding the self -- Coping with retaliation: affective recognition -- Small victories and making fun: performing the whistleblower.
Summary When people try to speak up about serious wrongdoing in their organizations, they are often ignored and sometimes punished for their efforts. Society tends to accept the suffering of whistleblowers, who often experience significant retaliation, as more or less normal. This book challenges this acceptance. It explores how the narrative might be changed. Whistleblowing draws on emergent theories in the fields of organization studies and sociology to address the questions of why whistleblowers are frequently ignored and why, if they are acknowledged for speaking up, they are then isolated by colleagues, industry peers, and even loved ones. Kate Kenny offers a new way to understand whistleblowing and the experiences of those involved in it, and explains both how whistleblowers can cope and survive their ordeal and how organizations can change to protect and benefit from whistleblowers.-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Whistle blowing.
Retribution.
Organizational behavior.
Organizational change.
Organizational behavior. (OCoLC)fst01047801
Organizational change. (OCoLC)fst01047828
Retribution. (OCoLC)fst01096377
Whistle blowing. (OCoLC)fst01174586
ISBN 9780674975798 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0674975790 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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