Companies continue to struggle with whistleblower retaliation issues, a problem exacerbated by a lack of transparency and rank-and-file employees increasingly becoming part of the problem.

Those were among the conclusions drawn by NAVEX Global, a global ethics and compliance intelligence consultant, after it surveyed senior executives and ethics and compliance professionals in September on whistleblower retaliation prevention and ways to โ€œcultivate trust and engagement between workers and management.โ€