ABSTRACT
This chapter, Chapter 7, presents the findings, or results, of this study. It offers demographic information about respondents as a whole, as well as within the top rank of public relations and communications executives. Post hoc chi-square analyses show relationships between rank, age group, and gender and other demographic characteristics. The chapter also presents previously unreported data about the role public relations and communications executives played in developing and/or publicizing the whistleblowing channels mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley; the level of wrongdoing that occurred in corporations; the frequency of whistleblowing among public relations and communications executives; whether or not public relations and communications executives viewed whistleblowing as a role responsibility; the channels public relations and communications executives used to blow the whistle; and how those public relations and communications executives who blew the whistle were treated. It reviews potential predictors of awareness of wrongdoing, whistleblowing, and retaliation, and it identifies which, if any, predicted those outcomes in this study. Finally, the study presents the results of the relationship scale to illustrate how the treatment of public relations and communications executives affected their relationships with their organizations.
