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Overview You are a consultant that the city manager of Friendship Township has hired. The police department in Friendship is having organizational problems, and the city manager needs help in rectifying this situation. You were hired because of your reputation and ability to implement organizational change. The city manager wants you to assess the current culture in the Friendship Police Department and make recommendations on the organizational changes needed to improve the culture. You will present your findings and recommendations in a written report to the city manager. Police Department Culture To help assess the current culture, you asked the new chief of police to compile a summary of the issues in the Friendship police department. Download and read the summary that was complied. Create a written report to the city manager. In your report, include the following information. The report should be between 1,250 and 1,500 words (excluding title and references pages). Overview: A summary of the information that will be presented. Current Culture: Explain the current culture in the police department and include an assessment of: Employee morale Work habits Major behavioral issues To support your assessment, include artifacts and observed behaviors that result in a negative subculture in the organization. Recommendations: Present the organizational change that should be implemented to improve the current culture. Address the reasoning behind your recommendations and the processes that you selected, explaining why and how they will help improve the z Include research from four scholarly peer-reviewed sources to support your recommendations. Conclusion Write in a scholarly and objective tone, avoiding using first person, personal pronouns, contractions, and colloquial or conversational language. Avoid the use of direct quotations. Use citations from each assigned reading and additional scholarly, peer-reviewed sources to support your content and credit sources of information and ideas. Note: This assignment requires the use of the assigned readings and outside research. Include citations from at least four scholarly, peer-reviewed sources and the assigned reading material throughout your assignment to support your content and credit sources of information and ideas.