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    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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    Professional Ethics Department Of Electrical Engineering

    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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    Professional Ethics Department Of Electrical Engineering

    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.

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