TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES

We have developed a number of useful resources to accompany this book. These include a module outline with a session‐by‐session teaching overview of the key issues set out, learning outcomes, a full reading list and information on relevant journal publications. A set of PowerPoint lecture notes is available alongside this. The website www.clipsaboutwork.org provides useful teaching video clips for key issues raised in this book and in the proposed lecture sessions. Finally, we have developed nine teaching case studies, and each can be used alone or alongside our proposed module outline. These help to bring students' awareness to ‘real life’ situations, and develop analytic capabilities around the key topics we address.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Various resources are available that can be used in conjunction with this book. One such resource is Whistleblowing Impact (www.whistleblowingimpact.org) a website on whistleblowing that has been developed by academic researchers (including the authors) who wish to make their findings available to a wider audience outside the university. The website offers practical guides informed by research on a number of topics including: the financial cost of whistleblowing, postdisclosure career survival strategies for whistleblowers, the impacts of speaking out, and whistleblowing in sectors including health and financial services. The website features videos, downloads and podcasts that help put the research into context. Links are provided to other related research and to key whistleblower support organizations.

Of particular relevance to this book is the material on Effective Speak‐up Arrangements. This section provides an overview of this research, some of which is referenced in Chapter 3 of this book. It also includes three short videos:

1. An accessible cartoon‐based overview of the main issues.
2. An interview with one of the authors in which he discusses how the research was conducted and the main findings.
3. A video from the launch of the report that was written for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), in which findings are presented and a panel discussion takes place.

These can help the reader to understand how the research was generated from real organizations with real issues, and to learn how the issues discussed affect a broad range of companies. Additionally, there are guides and recommendations for how managers and directors can play a part in ensuring that speak‐up arrangements are the best they can be.

Other resources are available from various NGOs:

Transparency International is an anticorruption NGO that has branches in over 100 countries. Several of these countries are involved in work on whistleblower protection as a priority. They publish reports, survey results and other resources. The Irish chapter for example provides an Integrity Network for businesses that offers advice on whistleblowing procedures, a helpline and guides for speaking up safely. It also provides regular and up‐to‐date surveys on whistleblowing attitudes within wider society:

1. https://www.transparency.org/
2. http://transparency.eu/
3. http://transparency.ie/
4. http://transparency.org.au/

Public Concern at Work is the Whistleblowing Charity in the UK. It operates an advice line that individuals can call into to get advice on how to make a disclosure, or what protections are available to them if they have already spoken up. PCAW also works with businesses to design and implement speak‐up arrangements, and publishes practical reports and case studies based on this work:

1. http://www.pcaw.org.uk/

The Government Accountability Project in the United States is a whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. It is a nonpartisan public‐interest group that litigates whistleblower cases, helps expose wrongdoing to the public, and actively promotes government and corporate accountability:

1. https://www.whistleblower.org/