Reporting Wrongdoing in the Workplace

Length: 2700

TASK

Instructions: 

• You must complete one of the following options.
• Each option contains a number of tasks. Read all options fully and be sure you are clear on the tasks you need to complete for your selected option. 
• Carefully read the Essential Notes for each option. The instructions here are mandatory.
• Refer to the marking criteria and grade descriptors (below), which provide additional – important – information on how you will be assessed.
• Your response must be in essay format and demonstrate APA referencing style.  
• All assignments should be 2700 words +/- 10% [use the marking criteria to judge which tasks should get more attention in your assignment].
• You may use sub-headings to help keep track of each task, but these are not mandatory.

TASK:

You must complete the following one task:

1.  Discuss the following quote from an Office of Police Integrity report (2012):

“The ultimate objective of reporting wrongdoing in the workplace must be organisational improvement. Without learning from and preventing wrongdoing – making the organisation better – there is no point compelling or even encouraging police to report the wrongdoing of their colleagues. If there is to be no organisational improvement, then the best way to protect police would be to have them not speak up at all.” [https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/file_uploads/VPARL2010-14No144_q5L31XtM.pdf]

Essential Notes

• You must use academic journal articles and/or books to support your responses. Do not rely solely on information provided in the study modules and/or work-related materials (e.g., policy documents, legislation).
• Your discussion must include references to:
  • Being accountable, understood as per Module 2, and
  • Being held accountable, and
  • A topic from each of 2 other modules

RATIONALE

SUBJECT LEARNING OUTCOMES

This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

• be able to analyse and evaluate the impact of ethical decision making in the course of their sworn policing duties and private lives.
• be able to analyse and evaluate both formal and informal accountability mechanisms.
• be able to articulate an enhanced understanding of the ethical issues raised by various policing methods and be able to explain what constitutes the ethical use of those methods.
• be able to analyse and evaluate various institutional values and the impact of those values on personal and professional values.
• be able to demonstrate the communication literacies and digital skills required of a competent criminal justice practitioner.