Every organisation has stakeholders; these are groups or individual that affect or are affected by the business. The number of stakeholder of a business varies as does their importance and influence. The type of organisation and the product or services it supplies also determines its stakeholders than a family business; it is therefore much more influenced and affected by the action, aims and objective of its stakeholders. In this report I will evaluate the influence of three stakeholders; Employees, Suppliers and consumers on Coca-Cola.

Employees:
Employee are very influential stakeholders of Coca Cola and they are one of the most important for the running of the organisation. Coca Cola has around 146,200 worldwide employees who have a high impact o the organisation. Satisfaction and performance of employees fully depends on the way human resources are managed in a company. Employee’s main interests are salaries, wages and job satisfaction; all these influence the company’s staff turnover, industrial action and the quality of the products and/ or services. Coca Cola must considers a lot of factors when employing new staff and managing the existing staff. Employees can affect and influence in various way and due to various reasons, some of which are skills and qualifications, personal views and opinions, employee performance, training and redundancy.

Since employee are one of the main stakeholders and are the human resources of the company their performance highly affects Coca Cola. If employees are not satisfied with the wages or the working environment the product and the service will not be satisfactory quality either and this will result in poor publicity. Motivation is one of the methods used by HR to improve employees performance as when employees feel unmotivated they tend to perform poorly e.g. an amount of soft drinks produced per day would highly