approachesstakeholder
Approachesstakeholder is a term used to describe strategies organizations use to engage stakeholders during planning and decision making. The concept focuses on identifying who holds interest in a project, assessing their influence and needs, and selecting engagement approaches that are appropriate to each group.
Core components include identification, analysis, and engagement planning. Stakeholders are identified and categorized by level of
Implementation involves maintaining a stakeholder register, developing targeted communication plans, and facilitating engagement activities such as
Uses: widely applied in project management, product development, urban planning, policy making, and corporate governance to
Relation to theory: grounded in stakeholder theory and participatory governance; emphasizes that decisions affect multiple groups
Criticism: can be resource-intensive; risks tokenism if engagement is perfunctory; mapping can oversimplify complex power dynamics;