Employees who bypass the standard internal chain of command to expose illegal or unethical practices happening within their own company to law enforcement or the public are known as:

Answer: B. Whistleblowers

• Answer: B
• Explanation: A whistleblower is a person, usually an employee, who reveals information about illegal, illicit, unsafe, or fraudulent activity happening within a private or public organization. Scapegoat refers to someone blamed for the mistakes of others, while an interlocutor is simply a person taking part in a conversation.

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