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Stakeholder salience

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, stakeholder salience means: The degree of priority managers give to a stakeholder's claims, often analysed through power, legitimacy and urgency.

In Turkish: paydaş önceliği

How it is used

Use to examine why some claims attract more attention; perceived salience can change as circumstances change.

Example sentences

  1. Stakeholder salience increased when residents' concerns became both urgent and difficult to ignore.

    The priority of a claim can shift without changing the stakeholder's identity.

  2. The review used stakeholder salience to question why a powerful supplier received more attention than employees.

    The framework makes patterns of management attention open to examination.

Common collocations

  • assess stakeholder salience
  • stakeholder salience model
  • stakeholderAny person or group that is affected by an organisation or project, or can affect it, such as employees, customers, investors, suppliers and the local community.
  • corporate governanceThe system of rules, practices and controls by which a company is directed and supervised, especially the relationship between the board, the managers and the shareholders.

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