...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...

... in an eight to ten-year plan. Among the steps I worked with them to take were: My client, a leading global pharmaceutical company, found themselves without a succession plan and leaders for the future. They were fortunate in that they caught the problem before losing contracts – a situation which...

... are learning agile more readily learn new skills and behaviors and carry forward that learning to perform successfully in a diverse mix of situations. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Learning agility Leadership development Succession planning Learning Learning methods Leadership...

... – 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 Having established what sort of characteristics employees expect to see in trustworthy individuals, the next question asked them to describe what they thought high‐trust organisations might look...

...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...

.... Pete Hammett can be contacted at: hammettp@leaders.ccl.org © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Succession planning Leadership development Senior management Here's a trivia question – name a superstar, hall‐of‐fame athlete that went on to be the head coach of a winning team...

... Limited 2006 Management development Competencies 360‐degree feedback Leadership 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...