Discussion:

Do you think corporate culture is a way to manipulate employees?

"Culture is nothing but a control system" (Spengler, 1980)

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Making reference to this particular phrase, Corporate Culture can be taken as the way managers and organizations have in order to preserve the uniformity and keep the control they have in employees. For example, one person working in a company having high degrees of corporate culture, can feel so tied to the system, not meaning that the employee loves working for that company, because corporate culture can "manage" at a certain point attitudes, but not behavior. Corporate culture in that way, can manipulate employees in the name of the company, because it tries to create a sense of belonging, and sometimes can quash specific culture manifestations that could be enriching to the organization.