Title: A comprehensive model for implementing succession management system: a grounded theory approach

Authors: Mahmood Danyali Deh Hous; Sayyed Mohsen Allameh; Ali Safari

Addresses: Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to create a model of succession management planning. The sample, consisting of 16 managers, was formed using snowball sampling. The data were analysed, using Strauss and Corbin's (1998) three-stage coding process. Results indicate that the modern succession structure acts as a central theme in the design of the integrated model of succession planning. The causal conditions, at three levels of individual, organisational and managerial structures, mediated by the modern succession structure, have impact upon the succession management accomplishing strategies. These strategies are: policy making, candidate evaluation, candidate development, and the effectiveness assessment. Of course, confounding conditions at three micro, organisational and macro levels, as well as the contextual conditions in three areas of the organisational outlook, contexts realising organisational outlooks, and organisational policies, influence these strategies. The outcomes of these strategies and the influencing processes eventually find expressions at (individual), (unit) and (organisational) levels.

Keywords: succession management; talent management; grounded theory approach.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2018.095637

International Journal of Business Excellence, 2018 Vol.16 No.3, pp.362 - 383

Received: 31 May 2017
Accepted: 26 Aug 2017
Published online: 16 Oct 2018 *

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