To blow the whistle in Brazil: the impact of gender and public service motivation
Given weak protections for whistleblowers in Brazil – a country with over one million federal civil servants and a well-known history of corruption scandals – how common is whistleblowing? This study presents results from a survey completed by 652 federal civil servants in Brazil. Examining the inci...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Instituição de Ensino Superior e de Pesquisa (INSPER) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da INSPER |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.insper.edu.br:11224/4649 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/4649 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Gender differences Public service motivation Retaliation Whistleblowing Wrongdoing |
| Sumario: | Given weak protections for whistleblowers in Brazil – a country with over one million federal civil servants and a well-known history of corruption scandals – how common is whistleblowing? This study presents results from a survey completed by 652 federal civil servants in Brazil. Examining the incidence of wrongdoing, whistleblowing, and retaliation, as well as the role of gender and public service motivation (PSM), we find that women tend to report wrongdoing less often than men, are less willing to engage in subsequent acts of whistleblowing, and experience more retaliation. Similar to previous studies, PSM is positively related to whistleblowing and retaliation diminishes intentions to engage in subsequent whistleblowing. Unlike pre vious studies, we find that PSM is more predictive of whistleblowing for women than for men. In contributing new findings to research on whistleblowing in lower to middle-income democracies, this paper contains important policy implications, partic ularly on the critical question of gender. |
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