This question may well be posed when certain political, environmental or financial issues affect an organisation. Examples of such organisations could be charities, not-for profit organisations or local authorities. Your answer would depend on the exact nature of the employer, but could include:
- generating income
- allocating scarce resources
- setting objectives
- implementing cutbacks
- quality control
- managing grant funding
or some particular campaign with which the organisation is involved. You will really have to do your homework though in order to answer this convincingly. Can you find out what the press profile of the organisation has been lately? Search on Internet for recent news about them. That may tell you about their priorities and concerns.