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What is Succession Planning

Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education
A process by which the current leadership of an organization provides leadership opportunities and professional development for employees that are identified as potential leaders.
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Cultivating Leaders from Within: Transforming Workers into Leaders
Carlise Womack Wynne (University of North Georgia, USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4458-8.ch003
Abstract
This chapter examines the practice of internal recruitment and internal advancement of administrative personnel within higher education. The purpose of this chapter is to determine the perceived success of one campus’s approach to internal promotion from the view of the promoted. Additionally, the chapter discusses the rationales for promotees’ views in relation to current literature and provides a contextual analysis of best practices related to internal promotion within higher education forums. The data analysis indicates that even within a single campus, practices vary widely, with little consistency or predictability. There is a correlation between the perceptions of job efficacy to support and access to mentoring from higher-level administration.
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Procedures that are allied to resourcing approaches the organization can implement to ensure that its employees are further developed to fill in vital and strategic roles to be leaders.
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Talent Management: Conceptual and Theoretical Understanding
Succession planning is the process of finding the critical positions within the organization and accordingly developing suitable action plans for creating future successors to undertake those positions.
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“a process by which one or more successors are identified for key posts (or groups of similar posts) and career moves and/or development activities are planned for these successors.” (Hirsch, 2000)
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A process for identifying and developing new leaders who can replace old leaders when they leave, retire or die.
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Is a process of identifying and developing people with characteristics to assume strategic positions within the organization.
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The Importance of Mentoring in the Development and Succession of Millennial Leaders
A systematic process carried out by organizations to determine which individuals have the potential or the current ability to assume leadership positions when current leaders leave an organization.
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Identification and development of potential successors among the different family generations for key positions within an organization.
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Creating an Environment for Sustainable Leadership at Public HBCUs
The identification and development of internal people who have the potential to fill key positions in academic leadership and administration.
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Succession in Family Business Through Authentic Leadership
Succession planning is the process of pinpointing essential needs for leadership and intellectual talent throughout the organization over time and preparing individuals for present and future work responsibilities.
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Succession Planning as a Developmental Tool for Sustainability
A proactive attempt to ensure that leadership in an organization will be continuous by identifying how these positions will be filled as both planned and unplanned departures occur.
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Women in Higher Education Administration Leadership and the Role of Institutional Support
Finding the right person for the right job at the right time ( Rothwell, 2005 ).
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Entrepreneurial Spirit in Family Business Successors: The Case of Mexico
The plan of succession is that plan of the company to consider the processes to follow so that the employees who occupy vital positions are withdrawn or leave the company in a harmonious way, and that they are replaced by the more qualified candidates, having a process Transparent and hassle-free for the company.
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Using IT-Supported Knowledge Repositories for Succession Planning in SMEs: How to Deal with Knowledge Loss?
Refers to all activities involved in the preparation, execution and post processing of the respective type of succession.
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A structured process where employees are identified and developed in preparation for taking over a new role ( Garman & Glawe, 2004 ).
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The process of ensuring a back-up employee is groomed to replace another if the need arises. Succession planning allows the transfer of knowledge and skills from an employee to the successor, as a means of preparation for employee leave or internal position transitions.
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