Institutional Roles in Handling Whistleblowing (Loyens & Vandekerckhove, 2018a).
| Function | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Advisory | Awareness | General awareness-raising of the importance of whistleblowing in detecting and deterring wrongdoing |
| Training | Dissemination of information, skill development and capacity-building targeted at specific stakeholder groups | |
| Legal support | Access to free legal advice tailored to the specific and individual needs of whistleblowers. Can be pre and/or post reporting and can include legal representation | |
| Psychosocial support | Access to career coaching and mental health services | |
| Investigative | Investigation of wrongdoing | Investigation of the alleged wrongdoing aimed at fact finding and causal allocation of facts to outcomes |
| Investigation of reprisal | Investigation of alleged reprisal against a whistleblower | |
| Adjudicative | Corrective action | Action taken to remediate and sanction wrongdoing |
| Protection | Action taken to redress and compensate harm done whistleblowers |
| Function | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Advisory | Awareness | General awareness-raising of the importance of whistleblowing in detecting and deterring wrongdoing |
| Training | Dissemination of information, skill development and capacity-building targeted at specific stakeholder groups | |
| Legal support | Access to free legal advice tailored to the specific and individual needs of whistleblowers. Can be pre and/or post reporting and can include legal representation | |
| Psychosocial support | Access to career coaching and mental health services | |
| Investigative | Investigation of wrongdoing | Investigation of the alleged wrongdoing aimed at fact finding and causal allocation of facts to outcomes |
| Investigation of reprisal | Investigation of alleged reprisal against a whistleblower | |
| Adjudicative | Corrective action | Action taken to remediate and sanction wrongdoing |
| Protection | Action taken to redress and compensate harm done whistleblowers |
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