Stakeholder Management and Governance

In a dynamic, volatile and post-pandemic environment, stakeholder management has becoming more crucial than before.  For organisations to survive and compete in achieving sustainability, sustainability professionals must be able to analyse their stakeholders’ expectations and tailor their engagement approaches to meet the demands of different audiences.  Stakeholders are people or groups affected by or influencing an organisation.  They play a critical role, whether that is related to employee stakeholders and their motivation, or a customer base and what might impact their decisions.

To find success, an organisation must interact, to varying degrees, with a range of stakeholders.  This enables an organisation to manage messaging and expectation, and to gain insight into how stakeholders perceive them.  A key step in doing this is to map your stakeholders.  In doing so, organisations can be much more strategic in their approach – particularly when it comes to corporate governance.

Within this module, an overview of stakeholder management, engagement and influence, forming, building and leading teams, and the generic skills and responsibilities of being sustainability professionals are addressed with the objective of making it clear that all project-based work relies fundamentally on the ability of people to work together.  Managing and leading change, and critical perspectives of ethical and social responsibility, towards sustainable development will be appreciated. This includes acknowledging governance structures, establishing governance and oversight.

At the end of this module the student will be able to:

• Critically evaluate and apply sustainability principles to relevant stakeholders, organisations, products or services.
• Critically analyse the relationship between organisations and wider stakeholders that impacts on ethical practice and corporate decision making.
• Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the importance of multi-stakeholder engagement, communication, co-operation, and governance in aspects of policy, strategy development, implementation, and management.
• Develop understanding of governance structure, key principles and measures for effective governance in organisations.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the implication of global trends and governance for environment, society and organisations.

This is an SCQF Level 11 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

 

Delivery

Wednesdays: lecture 1pm to 3pm, tutorial 3pm to 4pm.

 

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Dr Ana Mat Said.

 

Funding

This course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates.  Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk.

 

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.  If you do not meet this criteria, please enquire here.