...Aqsa Mehreen; Zulqurnain Ali Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how employee development factors directly influence succession planning and indirectly improve employee performance using the tenets of human capital theory. Moreover, whether succession planning enhances employee...

... development Employee retention Talent management Succession planning Talent development High potential According to The Conference Executive Board Company, high-potential employees are twice as valuable to an organization compared to those who have not been identified as such, and are 75 percent...

.... An organization acknowledges a need for leadership development. Does it turn to external training, coaching, or mentoring to achieve their goals? Mentoring Leadership development Succession planning Organizational development Talent management © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014...

... agility Leadership development Succession planning Learning Learning methods Leadership Leaders of the future need to be better than the leaders they replace because the challenges are greater, the speed faster, the competition tougher, and the marketplace increasingly global. In short...

... – i.e. the loss of corporate knowledge – via succession planning. Design/methodology/approach A survey and individual interviews were conducted within the company to measure current job satisfaction and company culture as well as how the different generations of employees view each other...

...Steven H. Appelbaum; Heidi Gunkel; Christina Benyo; Said Ramadan; Fadi Sakkal; Damian Wolff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study and provide a large national publicly traded company with realistic solutions for succession planning. The name of the actual company where all data were...

... Management development Employee development Succession planning Competitive advantage United Kingdom In contrast to employee perceptions about the trustworthiness of senior executives, almost three‐quarters (72.6 per cent) of employees trust their direct line managers “mostly” or “completely...

...Michele Dytham‐Ward Purpose This paper aims to focus on the development of senior leaders within Abbey, part of the Santander Group. A strong leadership pipeline is essential to feed the succession plans into the executive roles; it is a critical strategic goal to ensure the continued health...

...Susan D. Hewitt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to raise the profile of deep succession planning to identify key talent. Older workers are now forming a significant proportion of the workforce. This cohort could be lost to retirement leaving industry and commerce short of talent...

...Angela Hills Purpose This paper aims to identify what succession planning actually is and the pro's and con's of buying in, or building talent in the organization. The paper is informed by BlessingWhite's 2008 global survey into employee engagement. Design/methodology/approach...

... for the next 15 years (Engstrom, 2005)! IBM's 2005 Global Human Capital Study suggests that within the next five (5) years 19 percent of the American executive and managerial workforce will retire (Rogers, 2005 , p. 3). When a leader is lower in the ranks of an organization, succession planning can...

... Succession planning In the past 20 years, the amounts spent on management development have increased substantially, as have the numbers covered. The Chartered Management Institute estimated that in 2003 UK employers invested £10.6bn annually in management development, or £589 per employee...