Whistleblowers are necessary to introduce change into a company when wrongdoings are
identified. They are the first employees within a company who witness and show wrongdoings
that arise in the everyday dealings of a company. However they are often ignored by their
colleagues supervisors and the company. Within this research the issues that arise from
neglecting the information provided by whistleblowers and ignoring the wrongdoing is
illustrated using the case of de Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit henceforth NZA. It will be shown
which the key variables related to whistleblowing are from the perspective of a potential
whistleblower as well as from a company's perspective. Finally it is concluded what went wrong
in the NZA case and recommendations are provided.
