Cultural Story Of A Local Mortgage Company

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Many years ago I worked for a great local Mortgage company. Because this company was locally owned, the owner’s focus was keeping standards and maintaining a good reputation. When I was first employed at this company he shared his story of how he started his mortgage company and the struggles that came along with it. He was a self-starter and was very proud of the accomplishments he made. This owner stressed the fact that he worked hard to build the company and took pride in his mortgage company. As discussed in the article, “Organizational Culture”, the organizations founder’s story is the most common cultural story (Gupta, 2009). Thus, the mortgage company owner used his story as the company’s culture story. At this mortgage company,