Agency Retaliation Against Whistle-Blowers

James Gerard Caillier

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Previous research examining whistle-blowing in organizations was mainly retrospective, focusing on the characteristics of whistle-blowers and non-whistle-blowers as well as the retaliation they faced. What organizational literature has neglected is a prospective examination of government employee perceptions regarding whether or not their agency will retaliate if they disclose wrongdoing. This article examines the degree to which federal employees felt they could report wrongdoing without reprisal. The results reveal that supervisory support, organizational commitment, and several power-dependency factors (work group performance, managerial status, pay grade, male gender, Caucasian) have a positive association with employee perceptions. Alternatively, senior-level employees (a power-dependency factor) are less likely to think they could report wrongdoing without reprisal. The implications of these results are explored.

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