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The Dynamics of Employee Dissent: Whistleblowers and Organizational Jiu-Jitsu

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  • Brian Martin
  • Will Rifkin

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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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  • Brian Martin & Will Rifkin, 2004. "The Dynamics of Employee Dissent: Whistleblowers and Organizational Jiu-Jitsu," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 4(3), pages 221-238, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:porgrv:v:4:y:2004:i:3:p:221-238
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    1. P. Cassematis & R. Wortley, 2013. "Prediction of Whistleblowing or Non-reporting Observation: The Role of Personal and Situational Factors," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 117(3), pages 615-634, October.
    2. Muhammad Hariz Hamid & Zaleha Othman, 2015. "Whistleblowing and Voicing Dissent in Organizations," International Journal of Management Sciences, Research Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 6(1), pages 8-15.
    3. Kate Kenny & Marianna Fotaki & Stacey Scriver, 2019. "Mental Heath as a Weapon: Whistleblower Retaliation and Normative Violence," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 160(3), pages 801-815, December.
    4. Kate Kenny & Marianna Fotaki, 2023. "The Costs and Labour of Whistleblowing: Bodily Vulnerability and Post-disclosure Survival," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 182(2), pages 341-364, January.

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