Professional Ethics Department Of Electrical Engineering

ASSIGNMENT NO: 02
Subject : Professional Ethics

Name: Salman Nawaz

Reg _no : 19mdele049
Section : A
Class no : 11
Submitted to:

Engr Abdul samad

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Question no 01:create your own story of whistle blowing

ANSWER:
First of all we will discuss

 What, exactly, is whistle-blowing?

Whistle-blowing

Whistle-blowing occurs when one or more employees go outside the

organization (e.g.to the press) to shed some light on misconduct within the
organization. In the context of engineering, whistle-blowing incidents often
occur in attempts to alert the public to a potentially unsafe product.

Whistle-blowing incidents can occur because of

either

 (a) overt wrongdoing (where an employee informs the public about the
immoral or illegal behaviour of an employee or supervisor)
 (b) negligence (e.g., where one or more individuals in an organization
have failed to act).

Whistle blower:

 A whistle blower is a person who tells the public or someone in authority

about alleged dishonest or illegal activities occurring in a government
department or private company or organization.
 A whistle blower is a person who raises concern about frauds,
corruptions, wrongdoings and mismanagement.

A government employee who exposes corruption practices within his

department is a whistleblower. So is an employee of a private organization, who
raises his voice against misconduct, within the company.

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Example of whistle blowing:

Jeffrey Wigand

Jeffrey Wigand, a former employee of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company

spoke out against the third largest American tobacco company at that time,
during a “60 Minutes” exclusive interview with Mike Wallace that aired on Feb.
4, 1996. He blew the whistle on the tobacco’s company attempt to enhance
nicotine’s effect on people by boosting it with ammonia that caused a more
rapid absorption of nicotine into the lungs, and ultimately affecting the brain
and central nervous system. His work with the U.S. Justice Department and
state attorney generals led to several injunctions against those in the tobacco
industry and helped prompt the “Tobacco Master Settlement” in 1998 between
46 states and the country’s four biggest tobacco companies

Conclusion:

This type of whistle blowing is ethically correct because the tobacco’s company
Attempt to enhance nicotine’s effect on people by boosting it with ammonia
that caused a more rapid absorption of nicotine into the lungs, which has really
bad effect on human life and also effect the brain and effect the central nervous
system.