ROFILING WHISTLE BLOWING EFFECTS IN THE SUB SAHARA AFRICA: THE NIGERIA EXPERIENCE
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2018
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Abstract
Mismanagement, misappropriation and trust abuse of public offices have hit the centre stage of
world discussions in relations to the negative effects on business and economic world of today
especially in the Sub Sahara Africa, leading toloss of trust and downgrading in the public service
which violates the publicinterest. Hence, this paper aims at carrying out a study profiling whistle
blowing effects in the Sub-Sahara Africa: The Nigeria Experience. The population of the study is
89.511 employees of the Nigeria Federal CivilService in which using the Krejcie and Morgan Toble of
sample, 384 copies of questionnaire were administered to respondents out of which 347 were
returned. Multiple Regression Analysiswas employed in analysing dota collected.The study's findings
revealed that disclosure of wrongdoing did significantly affect the overall performance of public
service with Beta of.341 and a significant level of.000. Also, the study revealed thot the medium of
disclosing wrongdoing has significant effect on the intention of the whistleblower with Beta.357 and
significance level of.000. The study whistle blowing hos an effect on organisational performance in
the Nigeria Public Service. Finatly, it was recommended that intense actions on creating a level
playing atmosphere for potential whistle blowers (employees) in order to improve the overall
performance of the organisotion.