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Assignment:
Provide a short response to the questions below including references, examples and citations.
Would you be willing to "give up everything" to do the right thing? Whistle-blowers (Edward Snowden, Sherron Watkins, Dr. Jeffrey Weigand, and many others have done just that).
Giving up everything means your job, your friends, your reputation (initially), and sometimes life as you know it.
All for doing the right thing. You would thus become a whistle-blower.
Question - If you had information that would implicate senior leaders in a Fortune 50 company with illegal, immoral, and unethical activities.
For months you tried convincing those senior leaders to review the information you had in your possession - to no avail.
You have been threatened with losing your job, which would mean ..... a senior leadership position with $400K of annual compensation, 20,000 stock options, and an annual bonus equalling $100,000.
You have been confronted by your boss (SVP of Finance) with an ultimatum:
1. Sign a document indicating that all the information you have is not true that there are no unethical activities taking place. By doing so you would keep your job.
2. Refuse to sign the document, lose your job, salary, bonus, and stock options. You will be labeled as disgruntled employee and not a "team player." You will then need to hire a legal team, work with the SEC and DOJ, you will become a whistle-blower, and make public the ALL the information you have.