Whistle Blowing - Does it Violate Company Loyalty?

What is whistle blowing and does it breach company loyalty? There are many arguments to suggest whistle blowing does violate company loyalty and there are just as many arguments to suggest it does not violate loyalty to a company.
Sisella Bok argues whistle blowing does violate loyalty to a company even though most of the time whistle blowing is justified. She says whistle blowing involves three elements: dissent(a difference of opinion), accusation and a violation of loyalty to one’s employer. Robert Larmer argues that an attempt to stop illegal or immoral company practices may be the highest kind of company loyalty an employee can display to his or her employer.
In reading the December 30, 2003 - January 6, 2003 issue of Time Magazine, one can find arguments to support both Bok’s opinion and that of Professor Larmer’s. The article is of Agent Coleen Rowley who blew the whistle on her employer the FBI after the events of September 11, 2001 took place.
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