You are encouraged to read the curse study, Sarah's Snacks, in Chapter 3 of the text. The case study is on pages 97 to 9

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You are encouraged to read the curse study, Sarah's Snacks, in Chapter 3 of the text. The case study is on pages 97 to 99 of the text. This is a fictional care developed to capture the dynamics of organizational change an experienced by many companies across industrien. The specifics are drawn from accounts of business process to design activities at several beading companies Synopsis of the Case Sarah Woodley, CEO of Sarah's Snacks face a decision about how to improve an organizational change effort that has failed to show its expected results. The maker of organic snack foods has responded to competitive and cost prensures that have reduced margins by embarking on a process to design initiative aimed at improving supply chain effectiveness, increasing time to market for new products, and reducing costs. Beginning with a single process and then expanding to others, the company has created now work and information flows that integrate across functions Doing so proved more challenging than anticipated. In addition, employees are resisting using the new processen, preferring the older ways of doing thing. After 18 months of effort, the company has not achieved any of the expected outcomen Woodley must determines why and what to do about it This case study is designed to austrate Nader and Tundmary's Congruence Model. As a result you are encouraged to read the information on Nadier and Tushman's Congruence Model, which is also in Chapter 3 of the text. Nadier and Tubmar's Congruence Modet include four components, which are formal organization, work, informal organization, and people The Nadies and Tuhman's model can be used for organizational analysis as it links internal organizational components with performance. It is vakuntle for identifying organizational weaknesses and areas for intervention requiring an organizational change. It is also a sett framework for planning an organizational change 1. You are asked to write a response to each of these three question. The 3 questions are 1. How well dd Sarah's Snacks fit Nadler and Tutman's congruente model before it began its organizational change? Fit with Congruence Model 2. Why have the changes at Sarah's Snacks not produced the expected results? Fallure to Achieve Results 3. What do you recommend Woodley do? Which of your recommendations can be implemented in the short term and which are longer torm solutions Recommendations