Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model and Amedisys Incorporated

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Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model and Amedisys Incorporated
Amedisys is a home health provider as well as a hospice care service. The company in 1994 went public and currently trades under “AMED” (“Amedisys’ IT Division Profile”, 2008).
Identify the key outputs:
Organizational models represent the structure of an organization so that the organization can be observed and understood. Organizational models are useful because they help enhance management’s understanding of the organization’s behavior, they help to categorize data, interpret data and organizational models create a common language to be used within the organization (Falletta, 2005).
Healthy organizations are systematic in their collection of data in regards to categorizing and...

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