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Organizational culture is central to the performance of any organization. It is a collection of the beliefs held by an organization’s members, and the actions that an organization takes to uphold those beliefs. In an effort to acknowledge culture’s pervasiveness and fluidity, management and organizational scholars are now regarding organizational culture as composed of an open, varied, and malleable “toolkit” of resources. This trend represents a significant shift from how it has been described in the past as an internal code that leaders establish and that becomes entrenched over time.