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Introduction........................................................................................................................2
Task 1................................................................................................................................3
Introduction of Stakeholder................................................................................................3
Types of stakeholders....................................................................................................4
Internal vs. external stakeholders..................................................................................5
External Environmental Factors of Bonia.......................................................................6
Task 2................................................................................................................................8
Evaluate your chosen organisation’s relationships with THREE different external
stakeholder groups............................................................................................................8
Types of external stakeholders....................................................................................11
Task 3..............................................................................................................................12
Assess the factors that drive customer satisfaction for your chosen organization.........12
Task4...............................................................................................................................14
Assess the advantages and disadvantages, for your chosen organisation, of using
digital and social media in developing relationships with key stakeholders....................14
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................19
References.......................................................................................................................20
Introduction
BONIA Corporation was started in Singapore in 1974 by a young man Mr. Chiang Sang
Sem. BONIA luxury brand is came from inspiration of Italy. The first boutique in
Singapore in 1979 and the first boutique in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1988 (BONIA
CORPORATION BERHARD, 2022).BONIA company have three main principals that
are Modern, Elegant and Contemporary. The company has more than 1,400 stores in
total and has exclusive outlets all over the world such as Malaysia, Singapore and so
on. 5000 people across the world are working under BONIA (Bonia Corporation Berhad,
2023).BONIA Company distinguishes under three main geographical regions of
Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. In 1980, BONIA has become market leader on both
Singapore and Malaysia. BONIA has also established two other in-house brand :
SEMBONIA and CARLO RINO. The Group also holds the license to distribute renowed
international brands such as Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club ,Valentino Rudy, The
Saville Row Company, Pierre Cardin and Renoma (Firzanah, 2021).Corporation is a
luxury brand that designing, manufacturing, retail and distribution modern luxury leather
goods such as bags, footwear, accessories, watches, eyewear and more. BONIA
Corporation targeting the wealthy elite and middle class (Nazri, 2021). BONIA have a
long history in fashion industry (S.PUSPADEVI, 2017). BONIA company has many rival
companies. BONIA’S main competitor are Gucci, Charles & Keith and Coach which
produced international luxury brand leather goods and other product include.
Comparing BONIA product with other competing product, Coach selling higher than
BONIA and quality is lower compare to BONIA.
Task 1
Introduction of Stakeholder
A stakeholder is a person, group or organization with a vested interest, or stake, in the
decision-making and activities of a business, organization or project. Stakeholders can
be members of the organization they have a stake in, or they can have no official
affiliation. Stakeholders can have a direct or indirect influence on the activities or
projects of an organization. Their support is often required for business and project
success. The International Organization for Standardization's ISO 26000 is a set
of international standards for corporate social responsibility. It offers the following
criteria for identifying a stakeholder (Fernando, 2023):
An organization is legally obligated to stakeholders.
They might be positively or negatively impacted by an organization's decisions.
They are likely to express concerns and be involved in the activities of an organization.
Based on this criteria, stakeholders often include customers, employees, investors,
suppliers, boards of directors, community members and organizations, and government
entities. Stakeholder capitalism is a system in which an organization prioritizes
stakeholders' interests.
The term stakeholder has its roots in horse racing. A stake race is one in which the
prize money is derived from the entry fees that horse owners pay to enter the race. The
entry fee is called a stake, a synonym for risk. The person or entity that takes care of
the entry fees until the prize money is awarded is called the stakeholder. Traditionally,
the stakeholder has no financial interest in the outcome of the race (Fernando, 2023).
Stakeholders
are often divided into two groups, internal and external stakeholders.
Types of stakeholders
Stakeholders can come from a variety of connections to the organization or project. The
most common types of stakeholders include the following:
Customers usually expect organizations to deliver products of value.
Employees are often project stakeholders, who want to contribute to a project that is
related to their job (Fernando, 2023).
Owners supply an organization's equity and capital and are responsible
for organizational goals.
Investors are shareholders, who invest in organizations in exchange for financial returns
and often receive regular financial reporting on the companies they invest in as well as
voting power in major decisions.
Creditors, such as banks and bondholders, lend money to an organization to be paid
back with interest. Suppliers are vendors that supply materials and products to
organizations and have an interest in their business and the projects they pursue
(Fernando, 2023)
Communities have an interest in businesses being healthy, safe and beneficial to local
economies. Businesses create jobs and business for local communities. Environment,
sustainability and governance (ESG) are increasingly important values for consumers
and investors. (Fernando, 2023)
Economic Factors
The fashion industry in Malaysia can sell their products to the overseas market without
setting up a physical store, but economic factors such as inflation and changes in
consumer income can affect the performance of the industry. Malaysia's inflation rate
fluctuated from 1.0 to 5.4 between 2003 and 2008, which is bad for the economy as it
encourages consumers to fall into debt and declare bankruptcy, creating uncertainty for
creditors and depriving them of their legitimate income. (CFI, 2022)
Social factor
High-profile merchants must influence customers' purchasing habits to become more
westernized, while lower income levels may prefer other brands due to lower prices.
(CFI, 2022).
Technological Factors
Social factors such as attitudes, thoughts, and lifestyle can affect the demand for
industry in Malaysia. High-profile merchants must influence customers' purchasing
habits to become more westernized, while lower income levels may prefer to purchase
other brands due to lower prices. (CFI, 2022)
Task 2
Many businesses have external and internal stakeholders with unique roles in a
company. Both types of stakeholder influence a company's operations, but external
stakeholders sometimes have a more indirect connection. Understanding what an
external stakeholder is can help you develop and strengthen relationships with them,
improving the company's success. In this article, we explain what external stakeholders
are, discuss the importance of these stakeholders and the different types there are, and
answer frequently asked questions you may have about stakeholders.
External stakeholders
External stakeholders are people or factors that operate outside of the internal affairs of
a business but still experience risk based on the business's performance. For example,
a creditor is an external stakeholder as the repayment of their loan depends on the
success of the business.
These stakeholders can encompass many people and factors that affect how a
business operates and that experience the effects of a business's daily operations.
Stakeholders typically gain something from the company's products or services and
often help hold businesses accountable in their industries. For example, if a production
company produces lower-quality items, their customers might complain, return, or
boycott the products (ALVA, 2021).
Stakeholder Engagement
Bonia communicates with its stakeholders via a variety of channels, including as
townhall meetings, media engagement and briefings, social media, and consumer
feedback methods. We cherish stakeholder feedback and maintain constructive contact
with them through active and open communication, ensuring that the company's
obligations are met and properly conveyed to all stakeholders. To accomplish our goal,
we think we must build strong and trustworthy relationships with our stakeholders in
order to better support our long-term success and sustainability. While keeping direct
communication with our stakeholder groups, our team also examines material themes
from stakeholder engagement sessions on a regular basis to ensure we are up to date
on global trends. In FY2022, we conducted an internal survey of our employees to
better understand a variety of factors, such as employee engagement, trust and
confidence in our leadership and management teams, and opinions/consensus on
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues.
Assess the factors that drive customer satisfaction for your chosen organization.
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Bonia's clients are critical to our company's success. Our company strategy includes
ensuring client happiness through exceptional service and rewarding them for their
loyalty as we seek to deliver on our promise of quality items. As part of our objective to
become a recognized international luxury brand, we want to make sure that every
consumer has a great shopping experience with us. To do this, we follow Bonia's
Delightful Cycle, which is illustrated in the picture below.
Assess the advantages and disadvantages, for your chosen organisation, of using
digital and social media in developing relationships with key stakeholders
Introduction
Social Media Marketing involves using social networks to create, curate and share
valuable content with a targeted audience to increase brand awareness, build online
communities, attract leads and generate revenue.
Social media has transformed the way individuals connect, consume, and cooperate,
giving companies with an agile, low-cost, quick-response, and dependable tool. (2018)
(Meratian Esfahani and W. Johnson). To effectively manage the changing landscape of
social media, organizations must understand stakeholder participation. This
necessitates gathering information and understanding various points of view from both
enterprises and stakeholders. (Meratian Esfahani & W. Johnson, 2018).
Organizations’ Challenges in Engaging Stakeholders on Social Media
Organizations need to focus on creating new relationships between stakeholders, not
just technology deployment, to manage social media effectively. (Meratian Esfahani &
W. Johnson, 2018).
Bonia’ Stakeholders in Social Media
Stakeholders are any group or individual who can affect or be affected by the
organization's objectives, and are identified by their interest in the corporation.
Understanding their expectations and needs in social media is essential for long-term
success of the organization. (Freeman & McVea 2001). Organizations must have a
clear perspective about their stakeholders to create content for them. (Parmar et al.,
2010).
Social Media Management
Social media management refers to high-level strategies of organizations to organize,
govern, fund, and evolve their social media capabilities (Aral et al. 2013). It is
specifically about the ways organizations interact with their various constituencies in
social media. It includes the way organizations realize the different purposes of using
social media and identify their salient stakeholders for each of these purposes, and also
how they develop their strategy to explore the proper social media platform for those
purposes and the process of creating content and attracting the attention of different
stakeholders. Thus, the intention of social media management is on how organizations
should use social media to engage interactively with various stakeholders. (Parmar et
al., 2010)
User Engagement in Social Media
Customer engagement is a customer's behavioral manifestation toward a brand or
organization, resulting from motivational drivers. Stakeholders' engagement is the
interaction of stakeholders with one another or with an organization, and is manifested
in consuming User Generated Content (UGC). Social media engagement is a process
that involves three types of users: lurkers, content contributors, and active participants.
Organizations should inform stakeholders of their platform and understand the
motivational drivers of stakeholders to engage in social media. (Freeman, 1984).
Motivational Drivers of Various Stakeholders for Using Social Media
Zyglidopoulos and Phillips (1999) suggest that managers can identify stakeholders'
concerns and take appropriate actions by analyzing their conversations in social media.
However, many organizations fail to extract information about different stakeholders'
needs and concerns from social media and mislead their stakeholders. Miller and
Tucker (2013) found that employees play a more active role in creating active social
media content than clients in a healthcare system. Participation in social media is
voluntary and individuals can use it to communicate with organizations and other
stakeholders (Freeman, 1984). in Table 1.
Table 1: Individual motivation to participate in organizations’ social media
Conclusion
Social media is a dynamic environment where organizations' stakeholders are active.
To get value from social media use, organizations need to engage stakeholders in
social media. However, there is a lack of support in the existing literature about these
issues. Most academic research about how organizations are managing social media
has been conducted on large organizations in the Fortune 500 or multinational IT
organizations like Infosys, and does not have a holistic view. There is a need to
examine practices in non-IT/IS organizations. As an evaluation of strategies in Mc
Donald, It is important to monitor stakeholders to ensure McDonald’s involvement in the
purpose of the development process. Organizations need the contribution and support
of stakeholders, so they face problems in maintaining their position in the market. Their
idea and feedback help the organization achieve its goals and gain a high position in the
market. Monitoring is essential to the interests of the organization as suppliers and
creditors are involved with other companies for personal benefit. That makes them
McDonald’s suspicious. In order to ensure the engagement of the stake, the Holders
Company must maintain a good relationship and monitor them in order to obtain support
to achieve the goal. Reviewing the involvement of stakeholders is important to change
the decision-making and policies to improve business size and share. As summarise, I
will write down stakeholder relationship are very eminent part of the planning for the
organization change and also the company is using different strategies to maintain their
stakeholder’s relationship. Apart from this, they also give feedback on the particular so
that the company can experiment the project and allow taking some triggers which are
occurring during the decision making and implement the alternatives according to the
barriers.
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