Exam 2: Managing Public Issues and Stakeholder Relationships

Companies are learning that it is important to take a strategic approach to the management of public issues, both domestically and globally.

Identify the eight strategic radar screens that enable public affairs managers to scan their business environment. Briefly discuss the issues involved with each environment.

The components of a typical issues management process include:

The issues management process is a:

What is competitive intelligence? Why is it important to the public affairs function?

Organizations always have full control of a public issue.

An analysis of the stability or instability of a government is an example of scanning the:

An issue's public profile indicates to managers:

The drivers of stakeholders of engagement are:

According to management scholar Karl Albrecht, scanning to acquire environmental intelligence should focus on four strategic radar screens.

A public issue is also sometimes referred to as: