anybody who Blows the Whistle um immediately raises a question is it the individual is it the organization in my view any organization which has a whistleblower ought to start from the supposition that they are right there is an issue to address until proved to the contrary and when I say proved I do mean proved if I had to Hazard an opinion in most cases there is an element of truth about any whistleblowing allegation it may not be absolutely true but it may indicate something that is a problem perhaps not exactly the problem indicated and that
in itself paradoxically is valuable to an organization I mean what we know from history is that in quite a lot of cases people blew the whistle nobody paid any attention it would have been a lot better if the Whistleblower had been listened to that doesn't mean to say all whistleblowers are right but this is a serious issue actually scandals coming to the open may be a very healthy sign because in my experience 20 30 years ago a lot happened that was never reported never discussed and it certainly wasn't ethical these kinds of practices today are
much more likely to come out in the open so in that respect therefore I'm rather an optimist in terms of the general Trend will there always be ethical issues I think there will the borderline in terms of what is ethic ethical and not ethical shifts all the time and we're not all the same as people we are very different across countries across cities across continents it's unreasonable to believe that everybody will behave in the same way I believe that actually there are more checks and balances now in terms of ethical Behavior than there were before
if you go back 30 40 50 years ago the environment was was one in which people kept very quiet about most things you didn't discuss them people things were carved up quietly behind the scenes in a way that today will be regarded as completely unacceptable and quite rightly so in that respect therefore is there an ultimate answer you know will we all behave ethically no the question is are the mechanisms there to bring them into the open and to cope with them and not to eliminate them because we'll never do that but to minimize their
harmful effects
