After taking the time to evaluate Company Q’s current attitude towards social responsibility, it has been established that Company Q has begun to make changes that are needed in order to meet the criteria for its social ethical duty. Unfortunately, just because changes are being made, does not necessarily mean they are the appropriate changes. Looking in closer detail at the specific changes being made, I have come up with three areas that could use improvement regarding the company’s attitude towards social responsibility.
The first area of improvement that needs to be made is to change the amount of very limited health conscious and organic products to a lot more. When there is not an adequate amount of organic items to sell, customers will go elsewhere in order to fulfill their needs.
Company Q is not demonstrating correct social responsibility by selling their limited organic items at a high margin cost. They’re not meeting their personal obligation to benefit society at a large. Company Q is also hurting their chances of profiting by selling their limited products at such a high cost. Word will eventually spread about how expensive they are and they will be looked upon in a negative way.
Company Q is not making a wise ethical decision by refusing to donate money to the food bank, their excuse for not doing it is selfish. Instead of being paranoid that their employees are stealing food using “donating” as heir excuse, they should look at the bigger picture and take the initiative to demonstrate proper social responsibility for that particular major metropolitan area. It is such a big waste of food to be throwing it away instead of donating it.
All in all, Company Q is trying to make the necessary changes but at this point really needs to take a step back to look at the bigger picture. I personally, would not shop at their store. At this point, it is safe to say that they are strongly lacking in contributing their part in social responsibility.