.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Management succession Succession planning Employees Australia As businesses search for new and/or better means of achieving competitive advantage, the capacity of every functional area to improve organizational performance is under scrutiny...

...Tung‐Chun Huang Succession planning concerns the selection of talented employees to replace senior managers who leave the firm because of retirement, reassignment, or other reasons. Effective succession planning emphasizes minimizing disruption and dislocation arising from such personnel changes...

...John O. Burdett Describes the approach to replacement and succession planning successfully used by the human resource function of a Canadian packaging group. The approach is based on the evaluation of seven essential behavioural characteristics for managers as criteria separately for replacement...