Q. Enron employee Sherron Watkins:

1. When an employee learns of apparently unlawful behaviour on the part of his or her employer, does the employee have an ethical duty to blow the whistle on the employer?

2. Do any ethical duties or obligations of the employee come into conflict in such a situation? If so, illustrate what are they also explain how does the employee balance them?

3. Illustrate what practical consequences may one face if he or she becomes a whistleblower? Illustrate what role, if any, should those potential consequences play in the ethical analysis?

4. Illustrate what other consequences are likely to occur if the whistle is blown? Illustrate what is likely to happen if the whistle isn't blown? Should these likely consequences affect the ethical analysis? If so, explain how?