Stakeholder - A stakeholder is a party that has
an interest in an organization and can either affect or be affected
by the business. The primary stakeholders in a typical corporation
are its investors, employees, customers, and suppliers.
In the case of a Municipality of a city, the stakeholders would
have the below concerns:
- Customers - The customers of a municipality
would be the people of the city for which the municipality works.
The people would have concerns like waste management, upkeep of
street lights, etc.
- Suppliers - The suppliers would be the
organization which supplies inputs to the municipality. For
example, lights bulbs for streetlights, maintenance for vehicles
employed at the office. Their concerns would be payments for the
inputs on time and continued service.
- Strategic Partners - Organizations that
collaborate with the municipality would come under Strategic
Partners. These include private companies, NGOs, media, etc. Their
concerns would include the direction where the partnership is
headed. An NGO would need help from the municipality to be able to
perform activities to help people.
- Society - A society expects public happiness
from the municipality. This would include access to good roads, a
good drainage system, basically anything that makes the people in
the society happy.
- Owners - The owners of a municipality would be
its management. The management is concerned about the
municipality's employees, its suppliers, its customers, etc. They
need to make strategies to tackle issues that are most pressing and
should be handled urgently.