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    An explanation of policies and procedures in place to protect children and young people and adults who work with them. For example: Duty of care: As an adult working in a school, I have a duty of care to all the children in the school, as do all the other adults working there. Safety issue should always be paramount when looking after children. We are in a position of trust and should always make the children feel valued and important when they are talking to us. It is our duty to keep the environment

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    Whistle Blowing

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    Introduction The challenger disaster that took place in January 28 has led to the explosion of the shuttle itself and the death of all the crew members including the chosen teacher. A real disaster that occurred due to some wrong decisions and overriding some important information from professional employees within the company is considered a real catastrophe. Applying pressure on senior management team of the company that has developed the rocket in order to change their opinion about launching

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    Health Care Financial Management: Reporting Practices and Ethics Marvin Dumlao HCS/405 April 6, 2010 Lisa Sanders Health Care Financial Management: Reporting Practices and Ethics Whether operating as for-profit or non-profit, organizations must pay close attention to accounting practices and adhere to sound financial management procedures to remain solvent. This applies to health care organizations as well

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    Whistle blowing is an endeavor of an employee or previous employee of a company to uncover what he or she accepts to be a wrongdoing in or by a company or association. Whistle blowing tries to make others mindful of practices that are viewed as illicit or immoral. In the event that the wrongdoing is accounted for to somebody in the company it is said to be internal. Internal whistle blowing has a tendency to do less harm to the company. There is additionally external whistle blowing. This is the

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    A recent whistleblowing incident would have to be that of involving a United States Federal worker by the name of Edward Snowden. Essentially what occurred was that a NSA (National Security Agency) worker, Edward Snowden, of the United States leaked information that was supposed to be classified to NSA officials only. He was able to download terabytes of private data that included years of United States; covert military affairs, ideas, espionage, logs, de-briefings, surveillance intelligence, and

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    When a person feels that something illegal or ethically wrong is happening in their place of work, what can they do? That person has the right to go to their administration about the acts that are occurring. (GAP) This action would be called whistle-blowing. Furthermore, whistle-blowers would be protected by law from repercussions from coming forward about the ethical or illegal issue. (Hallman, 2012) The organization that protects accountants and other financial professionals within the field of

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    Labor Law Whistle Blowing Dillema Labor relations today, are quite different from those that existed in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when employment relationships were considered of very little importance in the eyes of the law. Industrialization and commerce grew bringing with it the birth of modem day labor law. America was in no way exempt from the pain of progress. Employer and employee relationships were strained from the very beginning of labor, and it

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    Ethical Issues In Enron

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    Enron Corporation is one of the companies in the United States suffered from significant losses. Due to the embezzlement of money, the company filed bankruptcy in December 2001 with liability of more than 50 billion USD. The reason of failure of Enron case are related to one of the staff, Jeffrey Skilling who formed the executive staff to find and use the void that exists in accounting, special purpose entities, and production of precise financial statements which can hide billions of debt consequential

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    implementation of the incentive provisions, a whistleblower fund of $452 million dollars was put in place. The possibility of qualifying for a significant whistleblowing award has been incentivizing some employees to bypass internal reporting controls in favor of reporting directly to the SEC. Corporate attorneys have to deal with employees that choose to bypass internal reporting and compliance and must also adapt with the changing landscape of whistleblower law to make sure they are protecting the company

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    public, going from country to country, escaping the USs attempts to capture him. He has exiled himself from America, into Russia. His title of a respective computer specialist working for the NSA and CIA has been thrown away, and is now known as a whistleblower. Before this Snowden lead a very wealthy, and healthy life. Living in Hawaii, earning 122,000 a year, and doing what he loves to do, who could argue with that? He made the conscious decision to leave everything behind. He wanted everyone to know

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