Abstract

Economistic view advocates maximize profit in State Owned Enterprises and causes unethical acts on the expense of providing quality goods and services. Materialistic worldview influences Managers and board members to accumulate wealth for personal benefit destroying organizations. The paper interrogates the use of whistle-blowers to cub governance failures as a way of moving towards humanistic governance in the State Owned Enterprises. It applies interpretative paradigm which encourage the use of qualitative approach through interrogating documentary views to come up with a generalization. The paper concludes that whistle-blowing needs supportive framework for it to be used as a tool to fight corruption and other vices in the state owned enterprises. Currently, Whistle-blowers lack protection and many obstacles exist that prevent people from willingly report unethical behaviour. Therefore, the paper recommends that enforcement of legal framework must be done, not seems to be done. Laws must be applied without fear or favour and offenders should not be protected by politicians. Political interference in the governing of state owned enterprises becomes the elephant in the room and needs eradication

Keywords

Whistle-blowing; humanistic governance; State Owned Enterprises; corruption