내부고발에 대한 조직의 부정적 반응, 그리고 가려진 행위자들: 근본적 불신, 관료주의, 법률주의

This study explores the organization's negative response to whistleblowing. The whistleblowers are usually placed in the organization’s punishment, life–threatening, urge to resignation, verbal·psychological·physical harassment, and legal battle in clarifying the wrongdoing he·she raised or in recovering their job termination. With these aspects in mind, I would like to look at the problems caused by public institutions, which whistleblowers have witnessed in the pursing their issues, and how the organization’s negative responses are made through administrative and legal procedures in the long term. The study resulted from two noticeable points in my field and interviews conducted since 2013. One was that many of the interviewees were placed in legal battles, and the other was that one of the unexpected difficulties for whistleblowers was the public officials’ limited and bureaucratic work style during the reporting process. There are non–professional practices of those in public institutions such as officials’ leaking the reporter to the organization or informing the organization of the whistleblowing, minimizing or covering the report, or asking the whistleblower to withdraw the complaint for their own interest. Each stage is a pattern of violence caused by specific actors and events, which, needless to say, has a great impact on whether the whistleblowing succeed or fail and whistleblowers. Unlike the popular disclosures of sacrifice and victimization on whistleblowers, this study tries to make a contribution to reminding the role of important actors not revealed in the public discourse, showing how the organization's negative responses are not only through psychological and physical violence but also through bureaucratic and legal procedure. If the role of public institutions or Non–governmental groups receiving reports, expertise of public officials who are deployed to identify problems, and psychological support and recognition of those around them are used in the right place, it is clear that the problems raised by whistleblowers will not only be able to be smoothly proceeded, but also whistleblowers will have much less burden during the whole process.