Whistleblowers
Subtitle: Broken Lives and Organizational Power
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780801438417
Subjects: Business & Management; Occupational & industrial psychology; Work & labour; Whistle blowing; Interpersonal Relations; Case studies; Psychology; Politics / Current Events; Sociology - General; Business/Economics; Labor & Industrial Relations; Industrial & Organizational Psychology; Administrative agencies; Business ethics; Corrupt practices
Description: "In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agenices and in the private sector. The conventional story - high-minded individual fights soulless organization, is persecuted, yet triumphs in the end - is seductive and pervasive.

In speaking with whistleblowers and their families, lawyers, and therapists, Alford discovers that the reality of whistleblowing is grim. Few whistleblowers succeed in effecting change; even fewer are regarded as heroes or martyrs."--BOOK JACKET.