Whistleblowing
QuickDef: An employee’s decision to disclose potentially damaging information to an authority figure (boss, media or government official)
Here's an example
An employee decides to take a shortcut, only one of their co-workers sees the shortcut. The shortcut decision ended up resulting in a faulty product which would soon be distributed to millions of children around the world. The malfunction would be very dangerous to children and could potentially kill a child.
The one employee that saw their co-worker take this shortcut has a decision to make. They can either tell an authority figure, a boss or manager, or they can keep it to themselves. If they decide to do tell higher authority, they would be considered a "whisleblower." A person that "blows the whistle" is not considered a bad person or a tattletale, but rather they are a person of higher moral standards.
There are a lot of things to be learned, both morally and ethically, from someone that blows the whistle, but the lesson to learn from this story is that you really should do the right thing, even if it takes more effort.
