A world-first ranking of the strength of whistleblowing processes across Australia’s business and government sectors has been released.
The results from 634 organisations across 18 industry groups and public sectors provide the first benchmarks for enabling organisations to assess strengths and weaknesses in their whistleblowing processes, as part of the Integrity@WERQ phase of the groundbreaking Whistling While They Work 2 research project.
Project leader Professor A J Brown, from Griffith University’s Centre for Governance and Public Policy, said the results vividly show the extent of challenges faced by business in trying to improve their whistleblowing and integrity regimes, and the imperatives for better standards and guidance.
“It’s apparent many private and not-for-profit companies are making concerted efforts to establish workable whistleblowing practices, and now we can see clearly, who’s making progress as well as the major tasks ahead for all – including many governments.”
Focusing on five key areas in the whistleblowing process: incident
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