CASE A: Sarah is leading a project to implement an online benefits management portal to enable employees to have a one stop location to view their health and dental benefits, get answers to benefits-related questions, and enable for changes to be made to health benefit coverage. The requirements were gathered over a two weeks time at the start of the project. The project is near completion the portal has been developed by the IT/Application Development group. It has been tested and will be rolled out early next week. Sarah was approached by a member of the senior management team who suggests that it would be of value to add in a component to enable employees to manage their system. Sarah have had such an experience with this senior management team in the past. Specifically, she was asked for additional scope for projects at the last minute and has been insistent about getting all needed requirements for this portal, regardless of the cost. In nearly each situation, the project was not successful, and Sarah had to justify the failure of the project.

1) Based on the case, evaluate what could the owners, as a stakeholder, expect on the results of the project of Sara?

CASE B: A company manufactures clothes in a number of towns and cities in the United Kingdom. These are then distributed to a network of retail outlets throughout the country. The company is owned by two other companies that take an active interest in the profitability of the clothing manufacturing and retailing sides of the business. Other UK clothing businesses now source their products from overseas as manufacturing costs in the UK are extremely high and reduce margins on the sale of the final product. The board of the business is currently considering closing the manufacturing side of the business and sourcing their garments from countries like China and India where manufacturing costs are half of those in the UK. However, there is some concern over the conditions for workers in these countries and the age of labor used.

2) Based on the case, evaluate what could the employees, as a stakeholder, expect from manufacturing companies when manufacturing costs are increasing and reducing margins for the sale of products?

3) Closing the manufacturing business is the worst scenario that the Board could face, evaluate how could the local community, as a stakeholder, be affected to the imminent closure?