Lesson 4: The Three Levels of Moral Dilemmas

1. Individual dilemma - choosing one moral will result

in violating another; or, doing one thing could bring
positive results but is morally wrong.
- conflict arrives when a person is asked to choose
between two important values for him or her.
2. Organizational dilemma - is a puzzle posed by the
dual necessities of a social organization and
members’ self-interest
- encountered by institutions, business, or
organizations in their decision-making process, at this
level the dilemmas that the organizations’ experiences
usually affect more than one person and they can be part of
the internal group or part of an external stakeholder.

3. Structural dilemma - affect a network of institutions and

operative theoretical paradigms like the universal
care, juvenile laws, and immigration. This type of
dilemma can affect a community and even a society at
large.

- affect a network of institutions and operative theoretical paradigms like

universal care, juvenile laws, and immigration. this type of dilemma can affect a community

and even a society at large.