Company Q is a small local grocery store chain. Company Q has gained a reputation of not being socially responsible. They have recently closed a couple stores in high crime areas of the city, reportedly because the stores were losing money. After a request from the local foodbank for Company Q to donate their day old-products, the management refused citing that theywould rather throw away the food instead of donating, risking the possibility of employeesstealing the products and saying that they were donating the food.Company Q has three areas that it can improve their reputation in the community whenit comes to social responsibility. The first area they need to address is their development of anethical cultural within the company. Another area is to reassess the relationship between theinvestors and Company Q. The last area they should look at to improve their socialresponsibility is to address the communities and customers that they operate in.To change the reputation of not being very socially responsible, top management atCompany Q needs to start communicating its core values to its employees and hire or promotesomeone to be the ethical officer to oversee the ethical culture of the company. The goal of having an effective ethical culture is to minimize the need to enforce the rules and maximizethe effort of all the employees to contribute to ethical decision making during difficult or newsituations. The benefits of an establishing an ethical reputation among the employees,investors and community for company Q is profit. The main goal for an ethical culture isperformance and performance equals profit.Company Q is worried about theft from employees who might be stealing the day oldproducts and saying that they are donating them to the food bank. An established ethicalculture with the company contributes to employee commitment. Employees who understandthe ethical