Overview of Multinational Oil Palm Plantation Company: KIDSA
Introduction
KISDA, a multi-national oil palm plantation company registered in Malaysia with mission that is “KISDA exists to make the maximum possible profit for its shareholders whilst causing the least damage to the environment. KISDA will, atll times, be a good corporate citizen.”. KISDA was granted a license to plant oil palm and manufacture palm oil by the National Government of Makasa, a small African country. KISDA operate in very remote and has no towns or cities nearby except a small villages which near the sites. To grant the license, one of the conditions of the license is KISDA would employ local people wherever possible. With the granted license, KISDA is entitled under the terms of the license to dispose the waste from the palm oil manufacturing wherever is convenient for it which is river. Local government took legal action against KISDA due to feared that the waste would affect the river, quality of the water and hence affect the tourism in Bara National Park. The State court granted the local government’s request to prevent KISDA disposing the liquid waste to river. However, upon appeal to the National Supreme Court, KISDA been granted the permission. Few shareholders argued that it was better to close the plant rather than to pollute the river. In this case, we are able to identify the stakeholders and to extent the degree of their power and interest that could affect the operation of KISDA. Furthermore, we are required to suggest some actions to resolve the problems regarding the stakeholders’ competing objectives and to discuss the extent of KISDA’s mission is consistent with the activity in this case.
(a) Categorise, according to Mendelow’s matrix, the main stakeholder groups of KISDA with respect to the decision about the disposal of the liquid waste. You should explain what the power and interest of each stakeholder groups you have categorized are likely to be.
Please draw the Mendelow’s matrix to categorise those stakeholders.
KISDA, a multi-national oil palm plantation company registered in Malaysia with mission that is “KISDA exists to make the maximum possible profit for its shareholders whilst causing the least damage to the environment. KISDA will, atll times, be a good corporate citizen.”. KISDA was granted a license to plant oil palm and manufacture palm oil by the National Government of Makasa, a small African country. KISDA operate in very remote and has no towns or cities nearby except a small villages which near the sites. To grant the license, one of the conditions of the license is KISDA would employ local people wherever possible. With the granted license, KISDA is entitled under the terms of the license to dispose the waste from the palm oil manufacturing wherever is convenient for it which is river. Local government took legal action against KISDA due to feared that the waste would affect the river, quality of the water and hence affect the tourism in Bara National Park. The State court granted the local government’s request to prevent KISDA disposing the liquid waste to river. However, upon appeal to the National Supreme Court, KISDA been granted the permission. Few shareholders argued that it was better to close the plant rather than to pollute the river. In this case, we are able to identify the stakeholders and to extent the degree of their power and interest that could affect the operation of KISDA. Furthermore, we are required to suggest some actions to resolve the problems regarding the stakeholders’ competing objectives and to discuss the extent of KISDA’s mission is consistent with the activity in this case.
(a) Categorise, according to Mendelow’s matrix, the main stakeholder groups of KISDA with respect to the decision about the disposal of the liquid waste. You should explain what the power and interest of each stakeholder groups you have categorized are likely to be.
Please draw the Mendelow’s matrix to categorise those stakeholders.