An Assessment Of Stakeholder Management Practice And Challenges: The Case Of Addis Ababa Land Adjudication Project
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2020-11
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Stakeholder management in the Addis Ababa city administration-adjudication project
faces different challenges. The objective of this study is to assess the stakeholder
management practice of the organization and to describe what challenges have been there.
There have been 85 participants from the organization and the findings implied that
stakeholder management practice is poorly managed that it will have an impact on the
success of the project. There is no separate unit in the organization to manage stakeholders
and it affects the identification of key stakeholders, communication problem, conflicting
interests between stakeholders and other problems have been seen from the findings. It’s
noted that there have been challenges of creating common understanding, conflicting
interests of stakeholders, communication gap, and understanding stakeholder’s
expectations and managing accordingly. Finally, it’s recommended that the organization
should emphasize stakeholder management, having a separate entity responsible for the
stakeholder organization will help in minimizing the overall challenges. It’s also
recommended that participation of team members in identifying stakeholders, ensure
strong communication, identify relevant stakeholders from the project planning, and
ensure full commitment from all stakeholders.
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stakeholder management practice, stakeholder management, identification of key stakeholders