If whistleblowing is the answer, ask a better question

Higgins, John; Reitz, Megan

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“…Leaders inside and outside of healthcare are turning their attention to creating 'speak up cultures'. However, our research tells us that they can't hear what they need to hear because they underestimate, or dismiss altogether, how their power can 20 and training employees to be braver or insisting that they speak up out of duty, will achieve little therefore, without leaders owning their status and hierarchy, stepping out of their internal monologue and engaging with the reality of others.…”

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Speaking truth to power: why leaders cannot hear what they need to hear

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Higgins²

2020

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2020

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“…Getting a trusted staff to confide in and to also be a member of the Investigative Panel is paramount in fairness and justice when a sexual violence case is to be determined. The TRUTH mnemonic of Higgins and Reitz (2019) was explained as the capacity to trust in the value of one's opinion and that of others and these values are essential in whistleblowing. These two attributes are the students' desire for effective reporting.…”

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“…The reason for this might be attributed to lack of courage, fear of retaliation as expressed by the participants hence, their suggestions for anonymous mode of whistleblowing. All over the world, anonymous whistleblowing has been very effective because, whistleblowing can be life- and career-defining for the blower (Higgins & Reitz, 2019). According to Gagnon and Perron (2020), the five major attributes of whistleblowing are act of disclosing; ethical dilemma; clash of loyalty; risk-taking; and polarizing identity.…”

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Intention of Staff and Students to Use Internal Whistleblowing to Report Sexual Violence: A Case Study of a Nigerian University

Ogunfowokan

Titilayo

Samson‐Akpan

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J Interpers Violence

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Sexual violence with its enormous negative consequences has become an epidemic most especially among the young populations. An effective danger-proof reporting system is necessary for curbing this menace including use of the internal whistleblowing mechanism. The study employed a concurrent (parallel) mixed method descriptive design for explaining the sexual violence experiences of university students, the intention of staff and students to blow the whistle, and their preferred whistleblowing strategies. A total of 167 students and 42 members of staff (69% males and 31% females, respectively) were randomly selected from four academic departments (50%) of a university of technology in Southwest Nigeria. An adapted questionnaire containing three vignettes on sexual violence and a focus group discussion guide were used for data collection. We discovered that 16.1% of the students reported to have experienced sexual harassment, 12.3% had attempted rape, and 2.6% had experienced rape. Tribe ( Likelihood-Ratio, LR = 11.16; p = .004) and sex (χ2 = 12.65; p = .001) were strongly associated with sexual violence experiences. Also, 50% staff and 47% students had high intention. Regression analysis showed that industrial and production engineering students will be 2.8 times more likely to have intention to internally blow the whistle more than other students ( p = .03; 95% CI [1.1, 6.97]). Female staff had 5.73 odds of intention more than male staff ( p = .05; [1.02, 32.1]). Also, we observed that senior staff will 31% less likely blow the whistle than the junior staff (Adjusted Odd Ratio, AOR = 0.04; [0.00, 0.98]; p = .05). In our qualitative findings, courage was mentioned as a factor necessary for blowing the whistle while anonymous reporting was emphasized for successful whistleblowing. However, the students preferred external whistleblowing. The study has implication for the establishment of sexual violence internal whistleblowing reporting system in higher education institutions.

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Abbasi¹

2019

J R Soc Med

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If whistleblowing is the answer, ask a better question

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Speaking truth to power: why leaders cannot hear what they need to hear

Speaking truth to power: why leaders cannot hear what they need to hear

Intention of Staff and Students to Use Internal Whistleblowing to Report Sexual Violence: A Case Study of a Nigerian University

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