"Succession Planning is More Than a Game of Chance," Shari Randall,
SPHR, Workforce.com (free user subscription may be required; search on title or
author)
Updating information on current staff is good preparation
for when one leaves.
"Why Succession Planning Can't Wait," Samuel Greengard, Workforce.com (free user subscription may be required; search on title or
author)
Discusses the need for contingent workforce planning in light
of the events of 9/11.
"Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building
Talent from Within," William J. Rothwell, 2000 (available
at bookstores)
Very thorough and "meticulous guidelines for preparing
for and quickly filling crucial vacancies at all levels of
the organization."
"Shared Wisdom: Best Practices in Development and Succession Planning,"
Robert A. Levit, Editor, Christina Gikakis, Editor, 1996 (available
at bookstores)
"Presents
and evaluates fourteen significant articles describing best
practices in development and succession planning."
"The
Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company,"
Ram Charan, Steve Drotter, and Jim Noel, 2000 (available at
bookstores)
Provides
strategies for grooming future leaders at each level of the
organization, although "the authors stress that it takes
some hard thinking for companies to determine what they really
need from leaders at each level."
Managers
and Supervisors Manual, IDOP, Chapter 13, "Organizational
Redesign and Planning"
Organizational Structure discusses a few basic types of organizational
structure, how and when they are used, pros and cons. Organizational
Identity provides questions
agencies should ask about who they are and who they want to
be as they go about the process of organizational redesign. |
