University Management Report: Sainsbury's Stakeholder Analysis

This report provides a stakeholder analysis of Sainsbury's, a UK-based retail company. It identifies key stakeholders, including customers, shareholders, suppliers, managers, employees, and the community, and examines how company decisions affect their interests. The report highlights the importance of considering stakeholder needs when making business decisions, emphasizing the impact on customers through pricing and product offerings, the importance of shareholder satisfaction through profit distribution, the influence on suppliers through business practices, the role of managers in achieving company goals, the significance of employee well-being, and the necessity of community engagement through corporate social responsibility. The report concludes by summarizing the key stakeholders and their relationship with Sainsbury's, underscoring the need for a balanced approach to business management that considers the diverse interests of all stakeholders.

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Executive Summary
The report contain details of company Sainsbury and show about the company stakeholder as
how they are been affected by company decision as well as it show the different important
stakeholder the company is having and it should take into consideration the same while
making any decision in business activities.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Stakeholder of the Company......................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
Reference....................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
. Each company have to take certain decision so that it able to carry its business
operation properly and effectively so it should take into consideration of the stakeholder
while taking some kind of decision in company business activities. Stakeholder are the one
who have some kind of interest in company whether it is internal or external (Andriof &
Waddock 2017). The report show how the company decision can affect the stakeholder
interest as well as it show who are the stakeholder of the company and how they are been
affected by company decision.
Stakeholder of the Company
Stakeholder are the one who have some kind of interest in company financial
statement as it can be direct or indirect interest, the stakeholder of company shown below:
Group of
Stakeholder
Interest in Company Company fulfilling their needs Information
Source
Customers Customers are the one
who use company
goods and services so
if the company change
their price or
something related to
its business than it
will directly affect the
customer as they are
the one who spend
their purchasing
Company is able to fulfil their
need by providing timely and
cheap product to customer as
well it bring them many types of
product so that it able to make
them use of proper resources in
the company business
(About.sainsburys.co.uk. 2019).
The
information in
regards of the
customer is
been gather
from company
annual report
(About.sainsbur
ys.co.uk. 2019).

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power to consume
company products and
services.
Owners Shareholder are the
owner of the
company, they are the
one who invest their
money in company
business activities so
that the company is
able to meet up all its
requirement. So if the
company is changing
any policy it should
take it consideration
about the interest of
stakeholder.
Company announced profit
which it have earned by
carrying different activities in
business, so they give that the
profit to shareholder as per their
shareholding as well as the
company is able to expand it
able to give more amount of
profit to its stakeholders
(Carroll & Buchholtz 2014).
The
information in
regards of
shareholder is
been taken
from company
annual report
and
sustainability
report
(About.sainsbur
ys.co.uk. 2019).
Suppliers Suppliers supply
different product to
company so that it
able to carry its
business activities
properly and
effectively. So if
company change any
Company can able to ask the
suppliers before taking any
decision which will affect the
interest of supplier as well it
should keep a proper
relationship with the suppliers.
The
information is
taken from the
annual report of
the company.

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business description
or nature than they
will get directly affect,
as well as if company
is having some
finance decision than
also it will affect the
supplier as they will
get some money from
the company upon the
goods which is been
delivered to company.
Managers The management of
the company are in the
hand of managers as
they play their role so
that the company is
able to achieve its
goals properly, so if
the company is able to
make any change it
should take into
consideration the
interest of managers
as without them
Company have to pay them the
amount of salary for the
management work as well for
managing the company better it
should also give them proper
sort of rewards so that it able to
work more harder in carrying its
responsibility.
The
management
information is
been able from
the annual
report of
company
(About.sainsbur
ys.co.uk. 2019).

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company will not
able to meet its
objective
Employee Company is been able
to achieve its goals
with the help of its
employee so they help
them to follow all
then business process.
So company should
take their decision by
keeping employee
interest as an
important part of
company (Henisz,
Dorobantu & Nartey
2014).
Company should come up with
new policy in regards of its
employee so that it able to meet
all the requirement which the
employee are having from the
company as well as form
management (Jones, Wicks &
Freeman 2017).
The
information is
been gathered
from company
annual report
and
sustainability
report.
Community They are the one in
which the company its
carrying its business
activities so if the
company is taking any
decision it should take
consideration in which
community it is
Company is able to fulfil all its
requirement by complying all
the rules and regulation as well
as it able fulfil the corporate
social responsibility so it able to
meet the expectation of the
community (Tantalo & Priem
2016).
The
information is
been obtained
by
sustainability
report.

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carrying it business
and should decision as
per the community
(Davis 2014).
Conclusion
On a conclusive note, the report show about Sainsbury as which is company based in
United Kingdom and carry retail business in the country. The report conclude about the
stakeholder as how the company decision can affect their interest and also how are the amin
stakeholder in the company

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Reference
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https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/~/media/Files/S/Sainsburys/documents/reports-
and-presentations/annual-reports/sainsburys-ar-2018-full-report.pdf
About.sainsburys.co.uk. (2019). Retrieved 19 July 2019, from
https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/~/media/Files/S/Sainsburys/documents/making-a-
difference/Sustainability_Update_2018.pdf
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Carroll, A. B., & Buchholtz, A. K. (2014). Business and society: Ethics, sustainability, and
stakeholder management. Nelson Education.
Davis, K. (2014). Different stakeholder groups and their perceptions of project
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Henisz, W. J., Dorobantu, S., & Nartey, L. J. (2014). Spinning gold: The financial returns to
stakeholder engagement. Strategic Management Journal, 35(12), 1727-1748.
Jones, T. M., Wicks, A. C., & Freeman, R. E. (2017). Stakeholder theory: The state of the
art. The Blackwell guide to business ethics, 17-37.
Tantalo, C., & Priem, R. L. (2016). Value creation through stakeholder synergy. Strategic
Management Journal, 37(2), 314-329.