A whistle blower checks and exposes misconducts

We can define whistle blower as a person who exposes misdeeds and occurrence of illegal activity in an organisational set up. The misdeed could be in the form of violating laws, breaking rules and regulations. Frauds in various sectors can be brought out by whistle blowers. Generally corruption and prevalent ills in the society like fraud dealings, violation of health and safety measures in public health sectors are brought out by whistle blowers.

You can get more information about the wrong doing in your organisation with the whistle-blower hotline. This is a powerful tool for gaining important information and feedback that can be stored for later use. Countries that have an active whistle-blower hotline seem to find this as a very effective tool as the misdeeds and wrong doings have reduced considerably.

Many whistle-blower hotline are telephone based which means there is immense scope for improvement. Internet based reporting system provides for better security and safety.

Benefits of Internet based whistle-blower hotline

• Internet base whistle-blower hotline provide anonymity to the sender which is crucial when such important things are being reported.
• Easy access from Internet means this becomes much more efficient as any one can report about the organisation. And in advanced countries nearly three fourth of the population has access to the Internet in their homes itself. This means the penetration of computer and Internet facility is pretty high.
• When you use a whistle-blower hotline, you do need to have a talk with the person to whom you are reporting about the misdeed. This pacifies the whistle blower as he can be relieved that he cannot be recognised by his voice as this gives anonymity.
• Whistle-blower hotline get typed material which can be saved in the computer for later use rather than a conversation which could be misrepresented later on.

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