The organizations: contexts where work takes place, or where there is a fight at various levels, so that people work possibly together and reach targets. The instruments of ethics: the charter of the values, declarations in principle and evaluation systems more or less coherent, ethic codes and research of congruent behaviours. The ethics of instruments: to ensure that the instruments for the implementation of the organizational ethics do not have too diverted, bureaucratised, institutionalised or useless lives. Paradoxical: Practically as far as the negation of the values established in principle are concerned. In business it is easy to wander off the proper path because professional standards are a vocational option and not part of a territory. They are standards difficult to code, unavoidably imperfect, often incomplete, inadequate and redundant in reverse order with regard to the requirements of the concrete case. Though useful, they are often essential.