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This final assignment is designed to involve all of the main skills that you have learned during this course. In particular, your paper should demonstrate the ability to construct a deductively valid or inductively strong argument, clearly and accurately explain your reasoning, use high-quality academic sources to support the premises of your argument, fairly and honestly evaluate contrary arguments and objections, and identify fallacies and biases that occur within the arguments or objections presented.
You will continue to build on the arguments that you are presented in your previous two papers. In particular,, you will present a final improved version of your argument for your thesis that you begin for the Week One Assignment and fully address the objection that you developed for your Week Three Assignment. You will need to research a minimum of three scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library. (For further information about discovering and including scholarly research, take a look at the Help! Need Article tutorial (Links to an external site.) instructional resource.)
Write: in your paper
- Explain the topic you are addressing and your position on it. Provide a preview of your paper and a statement of your thesis in your opening paragraph. [Approximately 100 words]
- For help crafting a good thesis statement (Links to an external site.), go to the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
- Present your main argument for your thesis in standard form, with each premise and the conclusion on a separate line.Clearly indicate whether your argument is intended to be inductive or deductive. Follow up the presentation of your argument by clarifying the meaning of any premises that could use some explanation. [About 150 words]
- If your argument is deductive, then it should be valid (in the strict logical sense of the word); if it is inductive, then it should be strong. Make sure to avoid committing logical fallacies within your argument (e.g., begging the question). Additionally, the premises should be true, to the best of your knowledge. If one of your premises has a pretty obvious counter-example, then you should either fix the argument so that it does not have this flaw, or later, in your paper (steps three through five) you should address the apparent counter-example (showing that it does not really refute the truth of your premise). Arguments that are not valid, not very strong, commit fallacies, or that have counter-examples that are not adequately addressed will not receive full credit.
- Provide supporting evidence for the premises of your argument. [Approximately 350 words]
- Pay special attention to those premises that could be seen as controversial. Evidence may include academic research sources, supporting arguments (arguments whose conclusions are premises of the main argument), or other ways of demonstrating the truth of those premises. This section should include at least one scholarly research source.
- Explain a strongobjectionto your argument. [Approximately 250 words]
- Study what people on the other side of this question think about your reasoning and present the best possible objection that someone could have to your argument. Do not commit the straw man fallacy here. Reference at least one scholarlyresearch source. See the “Practicing Effective Criticism” section of Chapter 9 of the course text for more information.
- Defend your argument against the objection. [Approximately 200 words]
- Once you have presented the objection, indicate clearly how you might respond to it. It is acceptable to admit that reasonable people might disagree with you or that there might be an area in which your argument could be further strengthened, but you should do your best to explain why your argument is sound or cogent despite the objections.
- Provide an appropriate conclusion. [Approximately 75 words]
- For guidance about how to develop a conclusion see the Introductions and Conclusion (Links to an external site.) resource from the Ashford Writing Center
References to use for this assignment along with last paper references:
- Raiskin, M., & Ferrell, S. J. (2015). The false claims act and whistleblower suits. Corporate Board, (211). 24.
- Archambeault, D. S., & Webber, S. (2015). Whistleblowing 101. CPA Journal, 85(7), 60-64.
- Martin, J. A., & Combs, J. G. (2011). Does It Take a Village to Raise a Whistleblower?. Academy Of Management Perspectives, 25(2), 83-85. doi:10.5465/AMP.2011.61020808
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Running Head: THE ROLE OF WHISTLEBLOWERS
Week 3: Counterargument Paper
Milagro Connie Caballero
PHI 103: Informal Logic
Instructor: Kurt Moser
November 20, 2017
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Introduction
It should protect an employee’s rights to raise the alarm to the responsible parties
regarding unethical working conditions provided by the employer. The employee should have
the right to express him or herself regarding any discontent by the employer's conduct without
fear of victimization or losing one's job. It should not be mandatory for the worker to follow a
particular channel within the organization but the choice is upon him or her to decide if he or she
wants external intervention because the employee might regard the internal channels as bias. The
thesis statement for this paper is, an employee is obliged to report any misconduct of the
employer, and however, threatening it may be to his or her job hence terming whistleblowers
useful and necessary in an organization.
Premise 1
The worker must report misconducts.
The employee should report any misconduct by the employer to the responsible party like the
defendants for employee welfare or to the organizations that ensure that the employees are
contented with their places of work.
Premise 2
Whistleblowers laws laid aid in stopping offenses at the workstations.
Having whistleblowers in an organization is very significant because it is a way to ensure there
are counterchecks on the employees. Whistleblowers laws should be enacted in everybody to
keep workers on toes.
Premise 3
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If the worker blows the whistle, they should not get fired from the job.
Workers should have the freedom to raise alarms on conditions at the workplace either for
internal and external intervention, and they should be protected from the fear of being victimized
or losing their jobs when they involve an outside interference.
Premise 4
It is the duty of every person in the organization to report any scam irrespective of its
effect on the boss.
Every employee in an organization or firm should be held liable for any scam ongoing in the
company regardless of the fraud is a product of the boss.
My argument is intended to be deductive my conclusion being; personnel must report any
infraction committed by their employer without any victimization.
Evidence to my Premises
Premise 1
According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, an employee is obliged to report
any unethical practice by the employer or report any misconduct by the management of the
organization at the place of work. An employee should contact an appropriate government entity
in the occurrence of any unethical practice by the employer; the worker can notify the U.S
Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the event of misconduct by the employer that
seems to place the worker's health at risk. Or report to Wage and Hour Division of the U.S
Department of labor when an employer does a wrong on anything relating to, minimum wage,
overtime pay or other violations of Fair Labor Standards Act. Events of bias working practices
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which may include sexual harassment or discriminated based on gender and other personal
factors that are not related to the job should be reported to the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (Goel, & Nelson, 2014).
Premise 2
Whistleblowers laws should be a significant component of the organizations. They must
be present to ensure loyalty and honesty amongst the employees are upheld. This enables the
employees to be dedicated to achieving the organization's missions and goals. A whistle-blowing
culture promotes transparency and ensures communication amongst the workers is clear and
compelling. Whistleblowing protects the firm's client from unethical practice of negligent
employees in the organization. By reporting this employee the business is saved from lawsuits
due to incompetence (Goel, & Nelson, 2014).
Premise 3
Firing a worker from a job because he or she raised the alarm over a colleague unethical
malpractices has adverse effects on the organization, the employee will be relaxed at the
workstation and won't drive by any force to uphold the firm's values that aim at attaining the
organization's missions. Having no counterchecks at the place of work won't keep the workers on
toes to ensure competence service, which might lead to the body finding itself in mishaps or
lawsuits that can defame the name of the firm (Goel, & Nelson, 2014).
Premises 4
It should be the employee's obligation to report any fraud cases by the organization
irrespective of who it concerns, whether the scam involves the boss or just the fellow employees.
This will be protecting the workers from any reparations the fraud will have on the body. In the
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event of the scam being detected by the authorities, the punishment may cover all, both the
actively affected and those around the fraudster. Reporting fraud cases save firms from losing
finances due to misappropriations. The outside world will have confidence in a business whose
employees uphold honesty to this ex of reporting a boss. Reporting the scam cases by the boss
boosts the company morale (Goel, & Nelson, 2014).
Objection to my argument
Premise 1
It should be the responsibility of all the employees to remain loyal to their organization.
If any issues are affecting their performance, they should communicate it to the top management
in a transparent manner. It is wrong for the employee to expose the problems in the organization
without following the right channel. Such actions affect the reputation of the company which
might change the level of productivity (CHANG, 2017).
Premise 2
The adoption of Whistleblower laws creates more problems for the business than what
the employee gains. It might also cause wastage of time as an employee may spend a lot of time
trying to find negative information about the organization. This might affect the output of the
employee thus affecting the general performance of the business.
Premise 3
The organization should come up with anti-whistleblower rules to prevent misuse of
information acquired by such employees. Such laws can help the employees to create an ethical
working environment for the others. It also ensures there is a full concentration in the workplace.
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If the employee has an issue concerning the running of the business, the best channel is
determined so that they cannot escalate the matter.
Premise 4
Employees have the right to report frauds and other activities which affect the
functioning of the business to the top management. By creating such ethics in the workplace, the
effects produce...