The individuals who report unethical practices by their employers to outsiders are called:

Question

Accepted Answer

The correct option is 4:
A **Whistle Blower** is defined as an individual, typically an employee or former employee, who reports misconduct, illegal activity, waste, fraud, corruption, or other unethical practices occurring within an organization to a party outside of that organization. This external recipient could be a government agency, a regulatory body, law enforcement, or the media. The core function of the Whistle Blower is to act in the public interest by exposing information that the organization may be attempting to conceal. Their actions are distinct because they bypass the internal hierarchy, which is the key feature that the question addresses by specifying the report is made "to outsiders."

The incorrect option is 1:
**Trust propensity** is a concept from organizational psychology that describes a person’s general readiness to believe in others or their predisposition to trust. It is a personality trait reflecting an inherent expectation that others are generally honest and reliable. This term is a characteristic of an individual's outlook, completely unrelated to the managerial action or specific role of reporting illegal or unethical conduct. An individual with high or low trust propensity may or may not choose to report misconduct, but the characteristic itself does not define the act of reporting.

The incorrect option is 2:
A **Work-Team** is an organizational unit composed of a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. It is a collaborative structure for completing organizational tasks. While a member of a work-team could become a whistle blower, the term *Work-Team* itself refers to a functional group, not the specific individual role of exposing a company’s unethical practices to the outside world.

The incorrect option is 3:
**Collective Bargaining** is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights. This formal, joint consultation process is often managed by a trade union. It is an activity and a legal framework for labor relations, not the title for an individual who discloses corporate wrongdoing. Collective bargaining aims for contractual agreement, whereas whistle blowing aims for disclosure and correction of illegal behavior.