One thing common to all businesses is organizational culture. Organizational culture is the system of shared actions, values, and beliefs that develops within an organization and guides the behavior of its members (Schermerhorn 264). No two cultures are the same but they have a huge impact on an organization. Five ways management can either maintain or modify a culture include strategy formulation, motivation, management control, conflict management, and customer management plans.
             Strategy formulation is the way a firm defines itself and its overall direction. An excellent way to do this is through SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat analysis. Through this process, management examines the organization and focuses on its strengths, weaknesses, and treats. This will affect the organizational culture by giving it a strategic direction. How management motivates their organization can affect the productivity and thus the profitability of an organization. Motivation defined is as the individual forces that account for the direction, level, and persistence of a person's effort expended at work (Schermerhorn 102). There are different ways to motivate your workforce. Some companies offer bonuses for completing company targets. Some companies motivate by providing extra resources to departments. Another way motivation can be implemented is through rewards such as raises or days off. The motivation selected depends on the organization's culture and what management agrees upon.
             Management control processes can include programming, budgeting, measuring, and reporting. Programming is adjusting the decision-making process to ensure that programs are consistent with the flow and strategy of the company (Young 13). Ensuring everybody is focused on the same goal is important to organizational culture. A mission statement is a good program that shows the entire organization what they are about. Budgeting ...