Yes there are games for whistleblowers teaching you what to watch for, how to respond to immediate threats and with incentives during and after the game-assuming you survive.
Incentives??
If you are a US citizen, it is wise to clue into the relevant legislation:
Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (the first to encourage whistleblower activity)
Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform (the first to propose whistleblower protection)
Consumer Protection Act 2010 (the first to propose whistleblower incentives).
The Bothwell Law Group has a good article expanding on all this.
Not surprisingly, they recommend that you engage a lawyer BEFORE you launch into your actions, just for protection.
It is sage counsel.
Craig Deitrich has some excellent resources to view in the area of corporate social responsibility.
craigdietrich.com
His game, in development, is Whistleblower: The Game. The enemy is the military industrial complex.
craigdietrich.com
His game, in development, is Whistleblower: The Game. The enemy is the military industrial complex.
Another game- is Outlast: Whistleblower by Red Barrels.This can be downloaded to your PC or purchased through PlayStation and Xbox.
The player is Waylon Park a software engineer under contract to Murkoff. His task to alert journalists around the world about the malfeasance of profit oriented doctors and scientists, doing irresponsible psychiatric experiments on the patients at Mount Massive Asylum.
For a real life adventure, you may want to read these books.
1) Extraordinary Circumstances : The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
The author is Cynthia Cooper, who was Worldcom's Chief Audit Officer. She was responsible for exposing the largest fraud in Corporate history. It reads like a whodunit-which I suppose it is.
- who could she trust with her findings?
- how might she deal with her own job loss?
- how do you protect yourself when you are being physically threated?
2) Exposure : Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I went from CEO to Whistleblower
The author, Michael Woodford, describes his journey from an ambitious manager on the rise in the corporate world, to the senior executive with the unenviable task of calling out his Board of Directors. For those who wish to study this in a more classical business case study, the case can be downloaded from the University of Western Ontario B-School site. (Ivey School of Business)
ivey.uwo.ca
or directly to its case catalogue
iveycases.com
ivey.uwo.ca
or directly to its case catalogue
iveycases.com
These 2 cases have much in common with the movie, the Insider, cited in my last posting.
- who do you trust with your findings?
- how do you deal with job loss and, effectively career ruination?
- how do you protect yourself against physical and psychological threats?
Journalists are coming under increasing scrutiny and are being increasingly threatened by the Trumpty Dumpty White House. Fear of exposure is a remarkable sensation and quite often results in the guilty trying to cover up malfeasance and treason (likely in this case). The next blog submission with focus on the role portrayed by journalists as whistleblowers in film adaptations.
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