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Uber’s recruitment guidelines and highly performance-focused management were very coherent with its fast growth but not with a sustainable long term strategy. Uber’s executive team lacked the awareness of the medium to long term effects of such a corporate culture: bad employer brand, loss of talents (employee burn out and harassment), lack of market-reflecting diversity, and no trust and collaboration. As we have seen, it worked for a while and allowed the fantastic growth that Uber showed, but now the internal workings start to show and are damaging the brand and its future. Drastic changes are necessary: a tough job for Frances Frei from Harvard Business
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distinguish between culture and society then identify three factors that influence cultural change.

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The most common definition of culture is that it is a way of life. It is a way of life of a particular group of persons that is passed down from one generation to another generation.

we can also define the word society as group of persons that live together in an ordered community. The people in a society could share same beliefs as well as have common interests. A society is also a combination of different persons that are of different cultures.

The main difference between society and culture is that while the society comprises just of the people who share same beliefs and practices, culture is the beliefs and the practices of this people.

several factors are responsible for cultural changes in a society. three of these influences are:

• contact: When two societies come in contact with each other, there is likely to be a change in culture of both societies. This is known as cultural diffusion (the spread of cultural belief from one society to another society).
• Evolutionary changes in technology:  Any form of advancements or evolutions in technology could bring about changes in culture. Technological evolution in production technology or changes in means of transportation and communication could influence cultural changes.
• Geological and ecological influences: These are factors that influences cultural changes. An example is rainfall, altitude, proximity to sea.

These factors are all capable of deciding the culture as well as the lifestyle of dwellers.