How To Speak Up About Ethical Issues At Work

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by Amy Gallo

June 4, 2015
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Sometimes you sense that something isn’t right at work. You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. How do you know when it’s worth speaking up or not? Can you you protect yourself from potential consequences of calling out bad behavior? And when you do decide to say something, what do you say and to whom?

Amy Gallo is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review, a cohost of the Women at Work podcast, and the author of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) and the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017). She writes and speaks about workplace dynamics.@amyegallo
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