The purpose of the article. The article analyzes the corporate culture as one of the tools with which you can effectively manage the personnel of the enterprise. The structure of corporate culture is determined. A number of meaningful characteristics inherent in any corporate culture is considered. The factors of formation of enterprise corporate culture are investigated. The degree of conformity of value characteristics of enterprise corporate culture to the task of development is estimated. For the development of corporate culture of a machine-building enterprise, a system conceptual model is proposed, which takes into account various factors of the internal and external environment.Methodology. The most important problem of any Ukrainian enterprise operating in market conditions is the problem of its survival and ensuring continuous development. An effective solution to this problem is to create and implement competitive advantages that can be largely achieved on the basis of a well-designed and effective enterprise development strategy. In the context of radical socio-economic changes, corporate culture has become a significant factor influencing the effective economic activity and competitiveness of machine-building enterprises.Corporate culture is seen as a means of creating favorable conditions conducive to improving the efficiency of enterprise management and achieving competitiveness in the market of goods and services. The general importance of solving problems, their lack of scientific development, misunderstanding and ignoring the role of corporate strategy, the need to analyze existing methods and their in-depth study, the role of strategy for further development of the enterprise, its profitability indicate the urgency of the problem.Results. For the successful realization of strategic goals of the enterprise, the understanding of the role of corporate culture by the management is becoming more and more important. Every company must form its own system of corporate culture in order, first of all, to achieve the set business goal. This system must consist of certain values and be shared by the leaders of this enterprise. That is why the emerging culture becomes a kind of business card of the enterprise, which can be used to draw conclusions about its carrier. At the enterprise, corporate culture creates a special internal atmosphere that mobilizes people to fulfill higher goals and missions: the quality and intensity of work of each employee increases, production conflicts are minimized. Today, most managers see corporate culture as a powerful strategic tool that orients all departments to achieve common goals.Corporate culture and climate in the organization are the main factors of productive functioning of enterprises, i.e. they form the ideal of integrity, which in practice allows the organization to function most optimally both within a given society and as a special social group. Every company has its own corporate culture, which to some extent corresponds to its mission and goals, and the degree of this compliance determines the efficiency of the enterprise. To assess the existing type of corporate culture, you can use the test to identify the type of corporate culture that prevails in the organizationPractical implications. The model of innovation is based on the orientation of corporate development of mechanical engineering industry to stimulate innovation activities related to the development and implementation of innovations. This requires the formation of an innovative corporate culture that operates on the principle of innovation, or change in this way the existing one. The structure of corporate culture carriers is also undergoing changes in the direction of increasing the share of innovation-oriented staff with a high level of development of personal research culture. The complex model, in contrast to the above, is based on the concept of hierarchy of business cultures, according to which the central place is given to the corporate culture of the enterprise, the development of which is possible on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of external and internal cultural environment.Value/originality. The application of strategic management at enterprises allows to characterize economic, organizational, technical possibilities of production and their maximum use, in due time to coordinate work on business plans of the development of the enterprise. Strategic corporations always have the opportunity to behave consistently and systematically in their business, in particular in a dynamic market environment in general, which increases the likelihood of achieving their goal. Therefore, the introduction of a strategic management system in Ukraine is an objectively necessary process in the field of business management, which increases the readiness of business organizations to respond adequately to unforeseen changes and contributes to a sound, agreed solution to both current and strategic problems.