Company Q’s current attitude toward social responsibility terrible. When approached by the area’s food bank requesting donations of day-old products, management brazenly declined. The reasons they cited were worries over lost revenues due to possible fraud and stealing by employees who might say they are donating food. Company Q’s actions and cited worries convey that the company’s chief priority is making money. To further bolster this philosophy, Company Q’s answer was to close a few stores
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Social responsibility is an essential aspect at the heart of businesses and, in the case of small businesses especially, it can make or break them. Company Q, being a local grocery store chain with locations in different parts of town, has to evaluate each store differently given the economic situation of each neighborhood, the demographics and so forth. In order for them to be socially responsible, they must be aware of what is happening around them and adapt to it. Currently, Company Q seems
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Company Q is sociably irresponsible due to its disregard for its low income customer base. This is evident in its closer of multiple facilities in high crime areas, limited availability of healthy food items, and total disregard for local charities. While profits are the main concern for every business, Company Q must realize that public image affects profits. When Company Q demeans customers in low income areas the perception of the “Callous Corporation” will not only drive away customers in
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EST1 TASK ONE JLO Part A Company Q is not currently behaving in a positive manner when it comes to social responsibility; in fact, they seem to take an “I don’t care” attitude. They have closed several stores in big metropolitan cities citing that the stores are located in high crime areas and the stores were not turning a profit, this is very irresponsible behavior as it takes jobs away from the community, and these areas, unfortunately are the ones that need it the most. For years customers
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EST1 – Subdomain 310.2 Task 310.2.1-05 This paper will address the areas of improvement that Company Q can implement to improve their attitude toward social responsibility. Company Q is described as a small local grocery store chain with several locations in metropolitan areas. Recently, Company Q closed a couple of it's stores that were located in higher-crime-rate neighborhoods citing a consistent loss of revenue. Additionally, Company Q does not participate in donating
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Student ID Business Management Degree Program EST1 310.2.1-05 Social Responsibility The small grocery chain Company Q takes a pessimistic view towards the community which is shaped by the experiences of high crime rates in the area. In order to remain economically feasible Company Q has closed locations that were losing money. This allows the company to retain profits from other locations and provide jobs to members of the community. Unfortunately, because of the high crime rates, Company
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Brett Maslowski, EST1 Task2, December 11, 2014 A. Develop an applicable standards and procedures section that includes four elements of acceptable or unacceptable behavior found in a code of ethics. Welcome! We are quite pleased to have you as a new affiliate of our organization. As part of the family here at Brett's Bed & Breakfast Bungalow (often called Quad-B's), you will be held accountable to acceptable standards and procedures along with the rest of the company; in addition
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EST1 - Task 310.2.1-05 The attitude of Company Q towards social responsibility seems to be decreased by the pressure of profit loss. They closed 2 stores recently due to the fact that they were continually losing money. This not only creates a problem for the employee's that worked there, but also for the customers who frequented the stores. By improving their ethical makeup they could not only improve their profits, but it would also help the relationship with their employees and customers
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Task 2 Situation B (Objective 310.2.3-08) Develop an ethics program for a company Task A – Develop an applicable standards and procedures section that includes four elements of acceptable or unacceptable behavior found in a code of ethics. Professional Behavior. All employees are expected to act in a professional and courteous manner when in the company of customers, clients, co-workers, supervisors, and in the general public when performing company business and duties. It is through
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I am tasked is to evaluate Company Q’s current attitude toward social responsibility and recommend three actions that Company Q could take to improve their attitude toward social responsibility. In evaluating Company Q’s attitude towards social responsibility there are a couple of examples that displays the company’s lack of social responsibility awareness. Company Q closed a couple of stores in higher-crime-rate areas with a claim that the stores are consistently losing money. The issue here
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