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Essay Instructions: Choose an industry in which two or more companies has historically competed to maintain a significant share of the marketplace. These could include: Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, Apple and Microsoft, GM and Ford Motor Company, or any other well-known pair of competitors.

Write a three (3) page paper in which you:
1.Determine how each corporate culture differs from the other.
2.Analyze three (3) ways that each unique culture has benefited by the other’s competition.
3.Speculate how each would continue to thrive if its current corporate culture would need to change in the near future. Be sure to state what change(s) you are speculating on and what led you to identify that possibility.
4.Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
•Examine the private enterprise systems, drivers of change on the system, ethic and social responsibilities of business, and the requirements for success in today’s business environment.
•Analyze the factors that drive supply and demand, different types of market structures in a free enterprise system, and factors of stability in a nation’s economy.
•Use technology and information resources to research issues in contemporary business.
•Write clearly and concisely about contemporary business using proper writing mechanics

Essay Instructions: The reading summary is primarily intended to be in the format of an outline summary of the reading content.
Only the conceptual points of the reading are to be summarized, not the illustrative or anecdotal material.
The reading summary is a synopsis of the reading.
It should be formatted in the best possible way in order to capture and communicate the key concepts of the reading in concise manner. A detailed, well-??organized outline format is preferred.

The reading summary is on "Corporate CUlture Survival guide" by Schein chapters one and two. below find the link to this book on google books. there are some pages omitted from google books so i will upload these as files. Please let me know if you have any questions
http://books.google.cz/books?id=LkYRFu05W-AC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f;=false

Essay Instructions: Please prepare an eight-page research paper discussing the importance of a company?s culture. Present different examples of corporate culture and the effects these different models have on efficiency and effectiveness.

Essay Instructions: The task is to search web sites of companies in the selected industry for company statements about their corporate culture. Instructors should remind students that most company web sites have a search engine, which can assist their discovery of cultural artifacts at that web site. to find documents with key phrases such as “corporate culture” or “company values”.

1. What values seem to dominate the corporate culture of the companies you searched? Are these values similar or diverse across companies in the industry?
2. What was the broader content of the web pages where these companies described or mentioned its corporate culture?
3. Do companies in this industry refer to their corporate culture on the web sites more or less than companies in other industries searched by teams in this class?