Whistleblowing, risk communication as core feature of sustainable management

摘要

The author shares some of his experience in systematically structuring risk communication in industry, business and the public health sector. The bottom line is that "whistleblowing" is typically the outragebased,unstructured form of deviating risk communication, which takes place, where a regular, trustworthy risk communication cycle is not in place. Where internal risk communication is gagged, there will be external whistleblowing. The phenomenon of retaliation in the context of whistleblower has been covered extensively in research, particularly in the US. This article shows what goes wrong before retaliation starts, before whistleblowing even starts and what can be done to make better use of the existing resources in a collective effort to identify risks early enough. Essentially risk communication is a resource;coming from a whistleblower simply changes it into the emergency state. It is in the best interest of decision makers to listen...