Company Q is a small grocery chain that has a few local locations. Events in the past have led to the grocery company being deemed less than acceptable when it comes to social responsibility. Because a few of the store locations were reporting a loss in money the company decided it was in their best interest to close the locations, which were in high crime areas of the city. A local food bank recently requested that company Q donate their day-old products to help the needy, rather than throwing them in the trash. The manager of the company was quoted saying that they would rather throw away the food, instead of donating it, because they were concerned that the employees might steal and cover it up by saying that they were going to donate the food. Also, the community has been expressing an interest in health conscious food which the company has a limited stock of available. Unless company Q wants to close down more of its stores they need to make a change and become more socially responsible. The first step in making this change would be to have the board members review their ethical expectations and core values that the company was founded on. Next, they should look inside the company and find someone that they think is a good example of those core values and promote them to ethical officer. This newly created position would be responsible for overseeing the ethical culture of company Q. An ethical culture should be introduced into the company in order to cut back on the need of rule enforcement and to increase the amount that the employees make ethical decisions from day to day. By increasing the ethical culture in the company it will also increase productivity in the employees, which leads to bigger profits. Another area that is of concern is the fact that company Q is worried that the employees would steal their product. Once the new ethical standard have