«What whistleblowers should know »-this is the title of interesting article written

by Michael Skapinker.
The House of Commons Treasury Committee has been examining the management
of UK banks leading up to the banking crisis. In evidence to the committee, Paul
Moore spoke publicly for the first time of his warnings three years ago to HBOS,
the UK bank,that it was expanding too fast.
The Government Accountability Project, a US organisation that supports
whistleblowers, has a message for anyone else thinking of exposing an employer's
wrongdoing: think hard before you do because you are going to suffer. It warns
that whistle blowers 'pay an enormous professional and personal price for their
actions - often a price they did not expect. Long after the public has forgotten your
brave actions, your former bosses will remember what you did to them.'
The first lesson of whistleblowing is that people will try to discredit you so, hard as
it is, keep your cool. The second is: after every discussion, e-mail a note repeating
your concerns. The lesson for corporate management is even c learer.When you
start receiving polite e-mails telling you the company is doing something wrong,
pay attention.