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Eating Its Own: The Whistleblower's Organization in Vendetta Mode
Author(s) -
De Maria William,
Jan Cyrelle
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1997.tb01291.x
Subject(s) - wrongdoing , dissent , project commissioning , publishing , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , law , public sector , political science , sociology , public relations , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , politics , computer science
This paper reports on Australia's largest whistleblower study. Specifically it focuses on the experiences of whistleblowers in the Queensland public sector during the Goss Labor government's first term. Rather than being affirmed as good citizen‐workers when they took disclosures of wrongdoing to their supervisors within the units in which they worked, the whistleblowers encountered obstruction and vilification. Their experiences offer a rare check‐up on the state of workplace dissent.