Discussion on Policy Experts and Political Experts

Corporate public policy focuses, in part, on organizational interaction and effectiveness, particularly regarding internal and industry-wide issues of environmental quality and sustainability. An essential element in ensuring that this process is effective entails having both policy experts and political experts inside the organization. For this discussion, analyse the difference between the two. Provide examples of how each of these positions interact 

within the organization.

            Every organisation has the objective of being effective in the market because it contributes significantly to its success. For being aligned with customers and the industry, firms have corporate public policies. To make them effective, they also have political experts and policy experts. Although they appear to be similar to each other, they are quite different and their roles are also different in a firm. They play important roles within a firm and can help it in achieving sustainable advantage in the market.

            In general, policy experts helps in the implementation and even create different rules, standards, norms, policy frameworks, and regulations for ensuring smooth and effective functioning of the whole firm. It would not be wrong to say that policy makers tend to consider the challenges, requirements, and needs of different stakeholders in mind. In addition to it, they are always thriving to maintain a balance among these stakeholders. For instance, let’s suppose that there is a firm which needs to implement a new policy about work in the organisation. It has two options: going to political experts and the second option is to go to policy experts. Instead of considering political experts, the firm will consider policy experts because they are the ones to consider the needs of internal stakeholders and employees for the implementation of authorities.

            Policy experts work along with other executives and managers to implement suitable policies within organisations to ensure that there is no resistance from the side of employees and other stakeholders. Considering the fact that resistance can mean inefficiency and discord for a firm, policy experts consider it very important to implement only those policies which can esure success for the firm (Longenecker, et al., 2013).

            Meanwhile, political experts tend to make and formulate strategies with the objective of maintaining healthy relationships with many other important authorities outside and within the firm. Political experts establish a power base which commonly offers important business opportunities to be utilised in the marketplace. In addition to it, political experts have the knowledge of gaining a favourable image or picture in the mind-set of government authorities along with other value-based stakeholders. Ultimately, the firm works to obtain better customers and improved profitability in the market. These roles and qualities might be carried out by a group or an individual executive.

            For instance, power politics might be played by a CEO and might as well formulated different strategic objectives against direct competitors in the market. Actually, employees might also be appointed with the duty of watching regularly on external environment of the business for extracting different opportunities and minimising risks which are involved in future operations of the business. Therefore, it would not be wrong to say that policy experts and political experts are quite different from each other because of their roles. While policy experts are mainly concerned with internal affairs and relationships with internal stakeholders, political experts are concerned with external stakeholders and maintaining healthy relationships with them. They ensure that the firm stays competitive and sustainable in the market and there is a coordination and healthy relationship between the firm and other external authorities, for instance, they can be legal authorities of a nation (Sampaio, et al., 2012).

References of Policy Experts and Political Experts

Longenecker, J. G., Petty, J. W., Palich, L. E. & Hoy, F., 2013. Small business management. s.l.:Nelson Education.

Sampaio, A. R., Thomas, R. & Font, X., 2012. Small business management and environmental engagement. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 20(2), pp. 179-193.