Succession planning for new practitioners

Sierra, Caroline M.; Calabrese, Samuel

doi:10.1093/ajhp/zxz248

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“…In fact, a 2016 national survey of local health departments in America revealed that only 39.5% of these departments had a formal succession plan (Darnell, Campbell, 2016). It was strongly recommended that healthcare institutions be proactive in developing formal SP strategies so as to reduce employee turnover in the health sector, particularly when recruiting numbers have been declining over the years (Trepanier, Crenshaw, 2013;Ellinger et al, 2014;Acree-Hamann, 2016;Donner et al, 2017;Phillips et al, 2018;Sierra, Calabrese, 2019).…”

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Succession Planning as a Critical Management Imperative: a Systematic Review

Obianuju¹,

Ibrahim²,

Zubairu³

2021

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This paper conducted a systematic review of succession planning (SP) articles published over the last decade. The Systematic Quantitative Assessment Technique was used to identify 174 SP articles. The review covered five key issues: 1) Time distribution, 2) Geographic distribution, 3) Article type, 4) Data collection methods, and 5) Themes explored. The findings revealed that interest in SP fluctuated over the last decade, and that South America and Oceania were the least represented by SP scholarship. The spread between conceptual and empirical SP articles were skewed towards the former, and survey was the most popular data collection method. Five themes were identified, with the most striking finding being that that if the ‘going concern’ principle of organizations is to be achieved, management must make deliberate efforts to formalize the SP process with the clear understanding that it is a continuous, transparent and participatory process, and thus a crucial management imperative.

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