User:AmyBlockJoy

My name is Amy Block Joy and I am a Whistleblower. I discovered embezzlement at my work and notified authorities in 2006. At the time I was a faculty member, director and researcher at the University of California, Davis. Two books have been published on the case. The first, Whistleblower (2010), tells a cautionary story on the whistleblower experience. The campus authorities who investigated the case substantiated the embezzlement, the falsified travel, misappropriation of government funds, and questionable time records(1). The second book, Retaliation, published in 2013, provides an account regarding the danger of speaking out in the workplace (2). Both books were written to educate readers on the importance of reporting wrong-doing as well as the consequences of exposing criminal activity in the workplace (1-4).

Notes 1. Joy, Amy Block. 2010. Whistleblower. Bay Tree Publishing, California. 2. Joy, Amy Block. 2013. Retaliation. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, South Carolina. 3. Joy, Amy Block. 2011. "Is Whistleblowing Effective for an Organization?" Compliance & Ethics Professional 8:(6), 20-25. 4. Joy, Amy Block. 2013. "The High Cost of Whistleblower Retaliation: Why Institutions Should Prevent It." Compliance & Ethics Professional. 10:(4), 37-40.