This e-learning course is designed to educate employees about the importance of whistleblowing in maintaining ethical standards and legal compliance within Korridor. The course covers the rights and protections for whistleblowers, the types of misconduct that should be reported, and the proper channels for reporting such activities. By completing this course, learners will understand their role in promoting a safe and transparent work environment.
- Teacher: Karien Vermaak
This educational material offers a comprehensive overview of whistleblowing, focusing on the role of the Whistleblowers ethics hotline service. It begins by defining workplace wrongdoing, which can range from criminal acts like theft and bribery to policy violations such as harassment and safety hazards.
It emphasizes the widespread impact of unethical behavior, highlighting how rapidly news can spread via social media and the internet, thereby affecting an organization's reputation and its employees. The material underscores the importance of whistleblowing, comparing employees who report misconduct to referees in sports, and notes the legal protections that exist to safeguard whistleblowers.
The guide explains how employers support whistleblowing by providing confidential, independently managed ethics hotlines. The Whistleblowers company, a specialist ethics hotline provider, offers multiple secure and confidential ways to report misconduct, including telephone conversations, an app, a website, email, SMS, WhatsApp, fax, and mail.
The material reassures potential whistleblowers about the confidentiality and anonymity of their reports and provides practical steps on how to use these reporting channels. It concludes with an inspiring message about the moral duty to report wrongdoing to ensure a better future for all.
- Teacher: Benjamin Smith