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ETHICS Ass1

The document discusses the three levels of dilemmas: individual, organizational, and structural. Individual dilemmas refer to personal conflicts, organizational dilemmas exist between personal and organizational interests or group and organizational interests, and structural dilemmas are conflicts between sectors, groups, and institutions that may be affected by decisions.

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ETHICS Ass1

The document discusses the three levels of dilemmas: individual, organizational, and structural. Individual dilemmas refer to personal conflicts, organizational dilemmas exist between personal and organizational interests or group and organizational interests, and structural dilemmas are conflicts between sectors, groups, and institutions that may be affected by decisions.

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Forio, Ginalyn F.

GECETH-18 – Ethics

Assignment 1:
Identify and explain the three levels of dilemmas and give your own example for each.
A. Individual
- This refers to personal dilemmas. It is an individual’s damn-if-you-do-and-damn-if-you-
don’t situation.
- This kind of conflict arrives for example when a person is asked to choose between
two important values for him or her for example, choosing between one’s duties to his
or her family one’s love for another person.
B. Organizational
- An organizational dilemma is a puzzle possed by the dual necessities of a social
organization and member’s self-interest. It may exist between personal interests and
organizational welfare or between group interests and organizational well-being.
Organizational dilemmas may likewise occur in business, medical, and public sector.
- Example of this kind of dilemma is 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.
C. Structural
- A structural dilemma is a conflict of perspective of sectors, groups and institutions that
may be affected by the decisions.
- A structural dilemma is not one anchored only to the specific facts in front of you. For
example, nearly anyone would say that taking a life is a more serious crime than rape,
bad as the latter is. However, if held hostage, one has the right (if absolutely necessary)
to kill one’s hostage taker, but one does not have the right to rape the person. Fine, you
say. But there might be closer questions; what if you threatened the hostage taker
(credibly) with taking HIS children hostage? One might say, “that would be wrong,”
but would it be wrong to merely make the threat, with no intention of carrying it out?
What if it worked, and the hostage taker released you? Would anyone be concerned
that you threatened him with your own hostage scheme?

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