Ethics And Human relations a look into it

The perennial question and the moderate answer Ethics and Human Relations can it go Hand in Hand ? Now why am i bringing this topic is of recent developments.

This issue popped up in my class when my good friend Tanvir put forward a question that in terms of a conflict between Management and Workers whose side should we as HR be and this boiled down to Ethics and HR and thus from an impromptu discussion it became into a fracas with people aligning them with Ethical or Unethical and this threw open some serious questions and it was a brilliant session.

Important Questions which came up
1)Isn't ethical practice for one company become unethical ?(ERP and raiding)
2)How do you stamp your authority with respect to being ethical
3)Will being Ethical reward me in short run and Long Run
4)Should Ethics be a facade am putting to distance myself
5)Who am i loyal to the Organization or Myself

Now these Questions drew varied answers from varied people but something people are not aware of is rating companies by what they have heard of them and not trying to find into it.

People consider Infy to be a great company (Even i do) and Satyam to be a fraud company but lets be honest has Satyam done anything wrong with its employees or had any sort of major case by employees against it ???? It was only their CEO who made the mistake and it had nothing to do with work of employees and he came out and accepted the mistake it was not discovered.

So i just hope people do not classify anything based on face value

Cheers

Arvind Srikantan