The Dynamics of Employee Dissent: Whistleblowers and Organizational Jiu-Jitsu |
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Authors: | Martin Brian Rifkin Will |
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Institution: | (1) School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, University of Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia;(2) Science Communication, University of New South Wales, NSW, 2052, Australia |
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Abstract: | Whistleblowing is a form of organizational dissent that is rarely successful, instead usually leading to disaster for the whistleblower. Organizational theorists seldom have addressed the question of how to improve whistleblowers strategies. A useful general perspective for doing this is to conceive of bureaucracies as authoritarian political systems. The concept of political jiu-jitsu, from the theory of nonviolent action, is adapted to organizational contexts and used to assess a range of tactics used by organizational elites against dissidents. The resulting implications for whistleblower strategies are assessed by comparison with standard recommendations offered by experienced whistleblower advisers. |
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Keywords: | whistleblowers dissent nonviolent action organizations |
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