Managing Collaborative Relationships with Stakeholders in Organizations
Understanding the principles of effective collaboration with other organizations is important
in an organization as the current stakeholders have an active interest, the interests could be
financial, environmental or charitably within the organizations. Within an organization, building
relationships with stakeholders can prove to help your business by using their expertise’s and
knowledge. There can be both moral and business reasons to collaborate with stakeholders. By
working with stakeholders that have current interests allows you to have a common ground and
want the best outcomes for your organization, it allows you to create outcomes together, improve
current systems and work on these together to create a better functioning organization.
Collaborating with stakeholders allows new ideas and helps towards problem solving.
Looking at the stakeholders allows you to gain experience and feedback to create a better
working business, it also allows you to build relationships which can help towards future cost,
flexibility and better customers services, an example of this is by using the parents at pre-school
to fill out questionnaires on their experiences of our pre-school, this allows us to evaluate our care
and look into ways of improving our service.
There are many different types of stakeholder mapping techniques used depending on the
organization. Stakeholder mapping technique should help you decide what you expect from the
stakeholders and what it is that you want from them to further the business, they can also help
decide on the role of the stakeholder within the organization. The advantages of using mapping
techniques to analysis stakeholders is that it gives identification on the support or interest from the
stakeholders, it allows you to spot potential risks and it can help increase transparency, leading to
better decision making within your organization. However there can be disadvantages within this
analysis of stakeholders as to gather the information to create these matrix or mapping techniques
can be hard due the time the stakeholders have to give to your organization. Another disadvantage
is that the current stakeholders may have an active interest but have no experience within the
organization they are supporting.
A strategic alliance is an agreement between two or more groups to help succeed in
achieving agreed objectives, whilst remaining in an independent organization. A strategic alliance
can share benefits such as financial, sharing costs, reputation, spreading the word that you are
collaborating, sharing resources and liaising creating better communication which can help
towards a number of goals. Alliance models that could be used depending on factors such as:
vision, legal requirements, goals, resources, finance and organizational structure.
Collaborating partnerships within an organization can be done in many ways and can prove
to be very beneficial. Within an organization collaborating with partnerships can allow you
manage potential risks and manage strategies based on the findings. Collaborating within an
organization has many benefits as more the more people involved can mean more input, more
ideas and solve more problems. Collaborating and working together in partnerships can be
rewarding, an example of this being able to share a vision and spread the responsibilities out,
although this could also become an disadvantage as to many managers or leaders could create a
problem, the problem being not enough people taking the orders and responsibilities. Being
involved within knowledge management allows you to gain access to confidential and sensitive
information which will help to gain a better understanding of the risk or vision and how to best
deal with it, although it becomes a disadvantage for us as the stakeholders now know our
weaknesses. Stakeholders will have access to login and other passwords which lowers our security
as the more people who have these passwords the less safe it becomes.
Close relationships can make the difference between long term sustainability and short run
dissolution. Organizations build relationships with their supply in order to gain flexibility,
efficiency and a competitive edge. An advantage of collaborating effectively with chain suppliers
can help create reductions in cost, improvement in speed, improve service levels and help develop
better customer services. Creating relationships with chain suppliers should allow you to maintain
your customers and be able to negotiate demands. An disadvantage of having close relationships
with the chain supplier could be that it’s a too close relationship to be in, not wanting to put prices
up and not wanting to upset or break the relationship, which can lead to having to pay the higher
prices, waiting longer for delivery’s and having to pay full price outright rather than an account.
An exit strategy is a means of leaving a current situation in order to minimize risk and
disruption. An exit strategy is a plan that is executed by a trader, business owner or investor, it is
used to liquidate a position or minimize a risk. Exiting from an organization can cause many
different problems such as financial, regulatory or legal, which is why an exit strategy should be
in place to help support such problems and protect your assets. The likely effects when invoking
an exit strategy is that a few problems may occur and effect the running of the organization, the
place in the market could change, the reputation could be damaged and trading could be effected
or even changed.
