Whistle blower & Psychology
Rajiv Naithani
HR & OD Thought Leader | CPO at Infogain | Dassault Systèmes, GlobalLogic & HCL Alumnus | Board of Trustee at NGO Trust | Industry & Academia Influencer
Whistleblower and Psychology - A reflective perspective!
One of the recent news about whistleblower raising complaint against the top posts of the organization around financial irregularities and business conduct did raise the eyebrows of many. While this was an anonymous complaint and is subject to validation through appropriate investigation, however, what followed next was certainly not good news for the company as it’s stock price fell 17%, with shareholders losing up to Rs. 55,000 as a market cap.
I am a big supporter of Whistleblower specific policies, as it helps in providing voice to those who can be deprived of speaking the truth by the powerful. However, what leaves me wondering always is the belief our society has associated to these allegations. We end up treating them genuine and true especially when these are raised against a corporation or a powerful individual or a specific gender. In Year 2015, the news about a young guy alleged on sexual harassment case by a girl created a lot of news across the Delhi NCR. Much before the real trial would have validated this, media and social trial caused irrecoverable loss to this person. Now very recently Delhi court acquitted him against the case. These four years loss cannot be recovered.
Would the reflection of these two non-associated situations give us the same perspective? One hypothesis could be that we form the opinion around such allegations in a particular way because of the societal experience where human race had gone through atrocities and were deprived of their rights in the hands of powerful and hence the psyche has always been that they would always resort to unethical and immoral ways to progress.
What are your thoughts on this?
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4 年Rajiv Naithani meticulously written... Whistleblowers are true to their conviction. It takes courage to do so. Good part is companies n public in general started taking these seriously. In corporate culture, maintaing a healthy feedback driven culture will help employees to share their perspective. Thus, issues can be addressed before even reaching whistleblower levels. I see whisleblowing as concern in terms of internal environment of that company/institute as alarms have reached threshold...
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5 年In the battle between weak against strong (David and Goliath), a weak person needs support and if the laws/ policies does not help create such support, it would lead to an oppressive system and no one would dare to raise his/her voice against it. Now this inherent advantage provided to make it an even battle, can be exploited by unscrupulous persons. The media laps up these cases as it leads to increased TRP. At times, the media trials help, but at times it is counter-productive as there is no accountability. Is there a solution? I don't think any law/framework can prevent it. The only way forward (for people who care), is to take any news/rumour with a pinch of salt and not believe everything at face value. One might empathize with the weaker party, but the accused should be considered innocent, unless proven otherwise.
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5 年When personal philosophy and vision do not align with the company/organization’s vision or lost it on a way, such things happens. I strongly support that too. But an irony is most of the people in an organization/job don’t have personal philosophy and vision in life....Mind it, I said most not everyone ????
When a bull fights, it is the grass that gets trampled. As you rightly mentioned - we form an opinion around such allegations in a certain way because of the experiences we've had/seen. Very well- articulated and voiced!