Which of the Following Statements Best Describes a Whistle-Blower

question 139

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best describes a whistle-blower?

• A)An employee is unhappy because his company is downsizing.
• B)An employee tells the Consumer Product Safety Commission his company falsified safety reports on a child's car seat.
• C)A salesperson for a company finds out that a member of his softball team, who works for another firm, took some paper clips from that firm to use for his personal use and wants to report him.
• D)An employee criticizes his employer's finance personnel to his fellow co-workers for picking the wrong stocks in his retirement fund; they lost value last year due to a downturn in the stock market.
• E. An employee spends the afternoon at work studying for her test rather than counting inventory as she was supposed to be doing.

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