Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents of Whistle-Blowing in the Organization

Whistle blowing is an action that informs the society about organizational violations and organizations about personal deviant behaviors. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to identify and rank the consequences of whistleblowing in order to facilitate and promote it in the organization. This research is applied in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of the nature of the data. The research population included 4920 documents, 52 of which were meta-analyzed using a non-random purposeful sampling method. Selected studies were analyzed using CMA2 software. Reliability of coding was achieved through the agreement of the judges in the application of specific concepts for coding the variables and the reliability of the significance level and effect size was achieved through the agreement in the calculation of the effect size between two meta-analysts. The findings showed that among the consequences of whistleblowing, 10 cases (21%) have an effect size greater than 0.5, 16 cases (33%) have an effect size between 0.3 and 0.5, and 22 cases (46 percent) have an effect size of less than 0.3. Therefore, the variables of organizational justice (0.683), trust in supervisor (0.656), executive guarantee for punishing unethical behavior (0.590) , internal control center (0.581) and organizational leadership (0.557) with high effect size, revealing work history (0.460), offender status (0.450), moral intensity (0.446) and seriousness Violation (0.384) has a medium effect size, fear of retaliation (-0.060), positive affect (0.062), loyalty (-0.130), job satisfaction (0.130) also have the lowest effect size. . Therefore, policy makers and managers should focus on identified factors to promote whistleblowing in the organization.