Commitment from all levels of employees is necessary in the development of an HIV/AIDS policy and program. For a helpful perspective on who to include on your policy design team, you will want to identify the stakeholders of your HIV/AIDS workplace policy. Stakeholders are the individuals and groups who influence or are affected by the policy adopted by your business. Stakeholders can include:
As you embrace the policy process, some of the most important aspects to address are stakeholder considerations. Support from stakeholders can help facilitate the design and implementation process for the introduction or modification of a policy.
To gather, analyze, synthesize and address stakeholder interests, you may want to pose these questions to guide discussion:
The information gathered from these and other questions should reflect stakeholder interests and help shape the workplace policy.
