Tasha recently changed employers within the same industry. At her old company, employees routinely took home company pens, pencils, paperclips, and note pads, and they frequently made personal long-distance calls on company phones. Tasha observes that employees do not engage in such practices at her new company. What Tasha sees is best described as a difference in ___.

The correct answer is corporate culture.

Explanation:

Corporate or organizational culture is, basically, the ideology of a company: the set of attitudes, habits, beliefs and behaviors of the human group that makes it up, the way they interact and the way they manage external business transactions.

It can be developed intentionally according to the direction in which the company moves in terms of style, priorities and values, or in a more organic way as a result of the sum of the characteristic features of its members and the nature of the interaction between them.

The culture of a company is reflected in its public image, its dress code, its business hours, its facilities, the benefits of its employees, its sales volume, hiring decisions, the treatment of customers and the degree of satisfaction of them and all other aspects of operations.