...Stakeholder Influences HSM/270 October 4. 2012 Stakeholder Influences In the field of human services one of the most influential stakeholders when it comes to program planning and evaluation is the funding source. Often times the funding source has a specific set of requirements that the program and agency must meet in order to obtain or maintain funding. The program planning and evaluation process is greatly affected by this. The needs and expectations of the stakeholders influence program planning and evaluation because they must adhere to specific restrictions placed upon them by the IRS and other government agencies. The funding source usually wants to proposed program to have similar goals and objectives along with similar values. The program planning may be changed in order to line up with the values of the funding source. The Madison Children’s Hospital seeks to start a program which research is done to look into the issue of chronic illness in adolescents ages 8-21. The funding source for this program is the National Institute of Health Care. The National Institute of Health Care seeks to fund research to improve self-management and quality of life for children with chronic illness. The needs and expectations of the hospital are to address the concerns of a lack in self-management of chronic illness. The hospital is interested in researching the causes for the lack of self-management which is causing an increase in complications as well as a lack of school...
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...Stakeholders in Influence on Program Plans HSM/270 Danielle Haskins May 17, 2015 University of Phoenix Stakeholder’s effect programs plans in many ways. Stakeholders are a person, group or a contributor that impacts the operation of a program or organization. Perhaps in some situation people think that stakeholders always handles the finances of the programs. The stakeholders has to shelter or fight for everyone that is a part if the program such as the staff and the people providing funding for the organization others are include like the community and the people that receive services. Stakeholders has a way to influence and to assist the program and ensure that it is being handle properly. When stakeholders has funded a program it can also take on the very needs and problem of that particular program. A program that can help with the ones in the community in need of assisted and if this does not work chances are the program will not be beneficial to community. A program should have mission, goals and objectives of what their needs and what type most cases people think that stakeholders deal with the financial aspect of a program. A need to figure out exactly how the program will benefits called a plan of action. The administration if the program is the head of the organization and is there to monitor and to ensure that everyone is being provided for with the proper services. People are hired to care and provide support and follow the individual support plans and ensure...
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...In this chosen field there are certain details that can never be somewhat over looked. You need to remember certain things but never once for a split second be ignored. Stakeholders have HIGH expectations and these expectations have to be met by the staff and people who are involved in your program your program must have a vision, mission and objectives. According to Influence of stakeholders (2013 January 1st) Http://www.bbc.uk/schools (Influence of stakeholders . (Owners have a big say in how the aims of the business are decided, but other groups also have an influence over decision making) Some of the following are examples of population, just to give everyone a simple idea. People who plan to change their efforts, and policy makers who target advocacy efforts. Secondary stakeholders are those who are directly responsible for all the efforts taken. For example: Employers, medical professionals, and social workers. Last but not least we have the key stake holders; these are the big important guys, although they’re all important in their own way. The reason I say they are the big guys, is because these people can pass laws, and enforce them in whatever way they need to. For example they’re would be “policy makers” The media, board members and local community leaders. These people play a big role regardless. It’s very important to try and set goals, without goals you have nothing, such as a vision, a mission statement. Etc. This will show everyone exactly how serious you are...
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...one public health problem in the United States, and affects all aspects of society in amazing dimensions, being the number one killer of women. In addition, the information was not based on a very wide demographic as well as each state having different definitions of Domestic Violence making it hard to accurately determine the expenses to the court system. A revision to the current legal system would need to be done in order to protect the victims and combat the cost of domestic violence on the courts. As the issue of domestic violence became noticed, it started to overwhelm the legal system. In calculating the Cost of Domestic Violence on the legal system, namely the courts, you must include offender programs, the cost of recidivism, and administration. OFFENDER PROGRAMS A domestic violence court promotes a coordinated, multi-disciplinary approach to improving the criminal justice system’s response to domestic violence, family violence and child abuse. The domestic violence court specializes in a court docket handled by a dedicated judge and court staff and linked to key partners, which serves to address gaps in traditional domestic violence case processing where multiple judges and prosecutors handle various aspects of the case. Victim and child safety is paramount in developing a project and all components of a domestic violence court must keep this goal in mind. Vital components in the domestic court are the need for trained...
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...------------------------------------------------- What is a Project? Learning Objectives After completing this topic, you should be able to * recognize examples of a project * identify the characteristics of a project 1. Project characteristics Projects make up almost half of the work that most organizations do. Organizations use projects to help meet their strategic goals. In terms of strategic goals, projects may help an organization meet changes in market demands, customer requests, or organizational requirements. They may also help an organization make the most of technological advances or meet legal requirements. Select each strategic goal for examples. ------------------------------------------------- Market demands ------------------------------------------------- The goal of a project may be to respond to increases or decreases in market demands. For example, car manufacturers research and design fuel-efficient cars to meet market demands for greener products. ------------------------------------------------- Customer requests ------------------------------------------------- Projects may help organizations satisfy customer requests. A call center may use a project to upgrade its computer systems based on requests for faster response times. ------------------------------------------------- Organizational requirements ------------------------------------------------- Projects can help meet changes in organizational requirements. So a company...
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...Stakeholder Influences on Program Paper Tammy Powell HSM/270 April 28, 2015 Courtney Hunt The stakeholders American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has guidelines the program must follow to receive assistance. The Madison Children’s Hospital is seeking funding from the JDRF and ADA. The program will make changes by narrowing the target population to children with the chronic illness diabetes will help the program with opportunities for education advancements, and funding in the future to keep the programs services the community is in need; it will also help the program reach goals to help children with chronic illness. The program will not help all children with chronic illness, but help the children with the chronic illness of diabetes. Helping one kind of illness will give the program resources to achieve the needs of the community. Both stakeholders have evaluations they use on programs to evaluate the success of the program. The stakeholder’s evaluation will reduce the cost of evaluation planning. The program will review the evaluations to know what to expect from the program. Changes to the mission made to keep funding after the grants are no longer available to the program. The foundations helped similar program in the past, and the program has a chance for funding by making changes for the stakeholder. ADA and JDRF are looking to find more education advancement opportunity with research to find a cure, and help children and...
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...Stakeholder analysis by Mohamed A. Abdrabo and Mahmoud A. Hassaan CEDARE 1. Objectives: 1.1 This document intends to provide background information on stakeholder analysis in terms of definitions, objective, need for conducting stakeholder analysis. 1.2 Also, the document aims to provide a systematic approach for conducting a stakeholder analysis within the framework of Wadi Project. 2. Background 2.1 Public issues in general and environmental ones in particular, can affect and get affected by a wide range of groups, bodies and/or individuals. Accordingly, involvement of such groups, bodies and/or individuals may assist in making more informed decisions and increase their potential for success. Furthermore, as the number of such groups, bodies and/or individuals is usually very large, they cannot all be considered for inclusion in such consultation process. Accordingly, a selection process needs to be carried out to identify the most important interest groups to be incorporated in such consultation process. The main criteria employed to prioritize interest groups may include interests, attitude, power and/or influence of such groups which may vary considerably from one party to another. 1.2 It is worth mentioning that stakeholders refer to actors (persons or organizations) with a vested interest in the decision or policy being promoted. 1.3. The main Objective of stakeholder analysis: is to identify the key people who have to be taken into consideration when making...
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...discusses relevant stakeholders that the multinational conglomerate company BHP Billiton encloses in their 2013 Sustainability Report. The components that are briefly touched upon is related to the various stakeholder influences, report and not reported costs (referring to the triple bottom line), but the majority of the paper primarily focuses on the environmental and social factors that BHP Billiton discloses in relation to their sustainability program, because the indicators seem to have the biggest impact on the outward-looking legitimacy of the company. We found that NGOs, local communities and unions highly affect how BHP chooses to report their operations, as these organizations/interest groups have a very close relationship to the firm; both negatively and positively. Furthermore, the paper tries to account for costs not included in BHP’s sustainability report, and it appear that some of these are cost-reporting on corruption, specific environmental issues, anticompetitive behaviour, and transportation. The paper do recognize that BHP is in fact a very active proponent of sustainability reporting, but on the other hand do question to what extent the reporting actually reflect the company’s inner workings, as BHP has been publicly criticised for this before. Question A: Influence of all possible stakeholders of BHP Billiton in terms of environmental and social factors. BHP Billiton is a multinational mining, metals and petroleum conglomerate with many stakeholders in many countries...
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...You Prioritize Among Stakeholder? A stakeholder is a group or individual who is affected by or can affect the success of an organization. This includes internal and external parties of an organization. They have interest on the organization such as employees, shareholders, customers, suppliers, competitors and so on. Stakeholder also can be said as the one who influence the decision making of an organization. Thus, the company should give importance to its stakeholders. This is to ensure a good relationship between them for a continuous success of the firm. Since there are many of them it is important for the managers to prioritize among the stakeholders. As manager, stakeholders can be given priority in several criteria for different type of decision. First, it is to identify the party the most influence decision making. For example, the shareholders are the one have direct influence on the decision making because they have their shares and looking for a project or decision that is worth and profitable for them. Thus the manager must ensure any decision they make will be profitable for the company as well the shareholders. It is important to identify someone from the stakeholder who actually can impact the success of the decision being made, and also who will be impacted by the decision been made. Thus manager should identify and analyse this two criteria to help them to prioritize the stakeholders. That is as mentioned earlier, their ability to influence change outcome and...
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...Auto Parts Stakeholder Analysis Amanda Gilreath BUAD 4000 University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 06/02/2014 Professor Van Scotter O’Reilly Auto Parts Stakeholder Analysis Being one of Fortune 500’s dominating corporations in the United States, O’Reilly Auto Parts influences a large amount of people and groups. These influences affect primary stakeholders who are entities and individuals that are immediately and directly influenced, and secondary stakeholders who are entities and individuals that are affected less immediately and in sometimes a more trivial manner. Although these effects may be small or large, it is imperative that O’Reilly Auto Parts considers its influence over the well being of all stakeholders, as its actions are proprietary to its subordinate’s obtainment of benefit or burden. Generally corporations focus on its primary stakeholders because they are the most noticeable and affected. However, it is myopic for a corporation to ignore or act in reluctance to its secondary stakeholders in naivety of the actual ripple that its action may cause. This is why stakeholder consideration and action is becoming a more ascendant quality of corporations. The analysis of four O’Reilly Auto Parts stakeholders will be discussed in this paper, each with its own synopsis of this corporations attempt to perpetuate its positive influence, and/or its failure to do so in particular areas. The stakeholders analyzed are customers, a primary stakeholder, and future...
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...fostering educational excellence. Education is needed for humans to make an impact on society, and to make viable decisions and the right moves at the right time. It leads to better jobs and higher income, health and life expectancy, voter turnout, self-worth and dignity. Education trains the mind to think and make the right decisions(2006). Through education knowledge and information is received and spread throughout the world. Uneducated people who cannot read and/or write are closed to all the knowledge and wisdom he/she can gain through books and other mediums. For growth and development education is needed. It helps working people update their knowledge and skill level to become more handy in their field or to gain a promotions. Stakeholders are individuals who stand to gain...
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...Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Lorie Janovsky BSHS/462 June 11, 2012 Kara Coleman Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization When an individual is seeking help with issues that may arise in their life, finding the right human service organization is essential. The object of this paper is to evaluate one human service agency’s mission and values, stakeholders influence on the agency, marketing and public relations of the agency, and value of diversity demonstrated within the agency. The agency chosen is The United Way of Central Massachusetts. The United Way of Central Massachusetts The United Way of Central Massachusetts made a commitment to improve the lives of people in the community (United Way of Central Mass, 2010). Their vision is to have “a world where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, income stability, and healthy lives” (United Way Worldwide, 2012). The mission of The United Way is “to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good” (United Way Worldwide, 2012). The United Way began back in 1887 by a Denver woman, a priest, two ministers, and a rabbi (United Way Worldwide, 2012). The organization was created “to serve as an agent to collect funds for local charities, as well as to coordinate relief services, counsel and refer clients to cooperating agencies, and make emergency assistance grants in cases...
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...STRENGTHENING STAKEHOLDER-COMPANY RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVES C.B. Bhattacharya Daniel Korschun Sankar Sen Forthcoming: Journal of Business Ethics Abstract Corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to gain attention atop the corporate agenda and is by now an important component of the dialogue between companies and their stakeholders. Nevertheless, there is still little guidance as to how companies can implement CSR activity in order to maximize returns to CSR investment. Theorists have identified many company favoring outcomes of CSR, yet there is a dearth of research on the psychological mechanisms that drive stakeholder responses to CSR activity. Borrowing from the literatures on means-end chains and relationship marketing, we propose a conceptual model that explains how CSR provides individual stakeholders with numerous benefits (functional, psychosocial, and values) and how the type and extent to which a stakeholder derives these benefits from CSR initiatives influences the quality of the relationship between the stakeholder and the company. The paper discusses the implications of these insights and highlights a number of areas for future research. 1 STRENGTHENING STAKEHOLDER-COMPANY RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVES Corporate social responsibility (CSR), or “a commitment to improve community wellbeing through discretionary business practices...
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...® Academy o/ Management Executive. 2004. Vol. 18. No. 2 Business ethics and customer stakeholders O.C. Ferrell A common view of the firm holds that employees, customers, shareholders, and suppliers are key organizational stakeholders.^ While obligations to these stakeholders are sometimes considered to be motivated by organizational self-interest, the ethical perspective asserts the rightness or wrongness of specific firm actions independently of any social or stakeholder obligations.^ Customers are key stakeholders that help establish the firm's reputation and identification. For example, today Procter and Gamble is considered a textbook marketdriven global powerhouse with billion-dollar brands such as Bounty, Olay, Tide, Crest, and Folgers.^ Understanding customer needs and wants and providing customers with high-quality products are the key to the company's success. A market orientation focuses on an understanding of customers' expressed and latent needs and development of superior solutions to the needs.* Such an approach selects to elevate the interests of one stakeholder—the customer—over those of others. another in advertising campaigns, each declared that they provided the 'freshest' ingredients. The matter was taken to court and resolved through civil litigation. The importance of creating customer relationships and creating value for the customer as a part of market orientation should lead to increased performance. This article provides insights on foundations for...
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...characterize Timberland’s exercise of its corporate power in society? Is Timberland using its influence responsibly? If so, how? Timberland’s exercise of its corporate power in society would be characterized as socially responsible since the company has created a commitment to giving back to society and its organization’s stakeholders. Timberland acts in such a way that enhances its society and its inhabitants and the company can be held accountable for any of its actions that affect people, the community and their environment. Timberland uses it influence responsibly by “trying to make a difference in communities where we live and work”. The company had launched the Path to Service program which allowed employees to be involved in numerous opportunities for community involvement from rural medicine outreaches to youth development. In addition to making both cash and product donations, the company was focused on sustainability issues which included reducing its carbon emissions and using renewable energy sources. 2. Has Timberland balanced its economic and social responsibilities through its various programs, such as the annual Serv-a-Palooza event and sustainability goals? Are the company’s programs examples of enlightened self-interest? Timberland has definitely balanced its economic and social responsibilities. The company fulfills its economic responsibilities to its owners and stakeholders by remaining financially stable. However, the belief that the mission of any company...
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