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In the business field, ethical issues are unavoidable and involve the interests of businesses and multiple stakeholders. This article explores seven ethical dilemmas in business, including moral and decision-making dilemmas, balancing professionalism and the environment, navigating cost pressures, balancing financial crises and collaboration risks, risks of partnering with another company, venture capital investments, and the trade-off in hiring a new manager. To address these dilemmas, this article introduces five grand challenges, namely the truth problem, the fairness problem, the responsibility problem, the sustainability problem, and the civic responsibility problem. These challenges assist businesses in overcoming dilemmas and dealing with ethical challenges in decision-making. Furthermore, categorizing ethical dilemmas into different types and contexts such as conflicts of interest, moral dilemmas, privacy and transparency, quality and cost, cooperation and competition, helps businesses make choices that balance the interests of different stakeholders and values. This article also proposes an ethical decision-making model as a framework to address ethical dilemmas. The model consists of seven steps, from problem identification, information gathering, stakeholder analysis, values analysis, option selection, decision implementation, to post-evaluation. This model helps businesses consider ethics and practical factors comprehensively to make decisions that align with moral principles. In conclusion, this article provides a comprehensive framework and model to help businesses understand and address dilemmas in ethical decision-making in business. By recognizing different types of dilemmas, applying the ethical decision-making model, and adhering to the right ethical principles, businesses can balance the interests of stakeholders, achieve sustainability, and fulfill their civic responsibilities, ultimately achieving commercial success.
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