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Sherry Hunt Essay

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The case of Sherry Hunt is an extremely complicated one. The fraud that she witnessed while working at Citibank was significant, and her report of it to the Federal Government was extremely honorable. Hunt had values and motivations in relation to this case, however I would boil them all down to the categories of first her own financial and physical well-being, as well as a feeling of responsibility she felt to correct these issues that she was seeing and helping all the people negatively affected by them. I certainly share these same feelings as Mrs. Hunt did in whistleblowing. The ability to financially support your own family, especially in the situation as Sherry Hunt with a disabled husband unable to work she had to be able to support …show more content…

The first thing that I would do would be to follow the correct chain of command in reporting the incorrect actions, with a non-response resulting in me moving further, and further up the ladder. Instead of using email such as Mr. Bowen attempted to do I would attempt to have these interactions with my superior’s face to face. I find that this medium of communication to be significantly more effective, and personal then simply sending off an email to somebody. This is because somebody can simply read an email, choose to respond, or just simply completely ignore the message all together. If you instead choose to confront the person in a face to face conversation that individual is more prone to giving you an answer to your issue. In doing this it is important also to convey your message to the superior in a non-threatening manner. The intention in the scenario is not to anger anyone, but simply get an answer to your concerns. If I went through the entire chain of command with no result, I would then realize that the issue was a systematic problem in the company and would then pursue some sort of legal action like that of Sherry Hunt. In this case, it is important that the issue is corrected by any means possible even legal action. Citibank was incorrectly using government money something that should not be tolerated. It would also be

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