Overview

The subject is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the need for succession planning and to learn how to justify, develop and maintain a succession planning and management system. This subject complements Strategic Human Resource Development in that it focuses on the succession system (its justification, development and maintenance) while Strategic Human Resource Development focuses more on the processes involved in a strategic approach to human resource development.

Course Content

The topics to be covered in this subject include:

       The nature of succession planning and management

       Trends influencing succession planning and management

       Moving to a state-of-the-art approach

       Competency identification and values clarification

       Making the case for a succession planning and management system

       Starting a systematic program

       Refining the succession planning and management program

       Assessing present work requirements and individual job performance

       Assessing future work requirements and individual potential

       Developing internal “successors”

       Using alternatives to internal development

       Using technology to support succession planning and management programs

       Evaluating succession planning and management programs