Succession Planning

This book examines current research related to succession planning strategies and tactics. The authors compare and contrast the rationale and processes needed for effective and efficient succession planning. This is a comprehensive endeavor exploring succession planning across today's key disciplines: business, education, and healthcare. Succession planning is examined from the commercial, government, and non-profit lens. The book features active research, broad literature reviews, and examines conceptual frameworks. From this valuable contribution to succession planning research, readers will receive a thorough assessment of the theoretical foundations of succession planning and ethical considerations for sustainable leadership.

Explores succession planning across today's key disciplines: business, education, and healthcare Provides a multi-faceted view of succession planning from three lenses: commercial, government, and non-profit Chapters include active research, broad literature reviews, and conceptual frameworks.

Autorentext
Pamela A. Gordon is a senior research fellow for the Global Business Research Center at University of Phoenix, USA. Her work has been published in Sage Research Methods , Journal of Business Case Studies , and J ournal of the Academy for Advancement of Business Research , among others.
Julie A. Overbey is the Lead Faculty Area Chair for the University of Phoenix Doctor of Management program. Her work has been published in the Leadership & Organization Development Journal .

Inhalt

1. Developing Sustainable Leadership through Succession Planning.- 2. Literature Review of Succession Planning Strategies and Tactics.- 3. Succession Planning for Large and Small Organizations: A Practical Review of Professional Business Corporations.- 4. Succession Planning Management.- 5. Succession Planning in Non-Profit Healthcare Organizations.- 6. Succession Planning in the Small Business: The Good and the Bad.- 7. Succession Planning in Family-Owned Businesses.- 8. Federal Agency Succession Planning.- 9. Promoting Public Sector Sustainability through Participation.- 10. Succession Planning Research within the Business / IT Arena.- 11. Strategies for Healthcare Organizations in Succession Planning.- 12. The Feminist Perspective of Implicit Bias in Succession Planning in Healthcare.- 13. Are You Preparing for a Successor? Succession Planning in a Small Private Practice Healthcare Setting.- 14. Succession Planning Research in the Educational Sector.- 15. Case Studies in SuccessionPlanning for K-12 Districts.- 16. Succession Planning Models, Conceptual Maps, Ethical Considerations, and Best Practices.- 17. Preventing Negative Conflict in Leadership Succession: Ethical Considerations and Practices.- 18. An Epilogue to Succession Planning: Understanding the Value of Your Enterprise.