Succession Planning for Library Instruction

Sobel, Karen; Drewry, Josiah

doi:10.1080/15228959.2015.1016198

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“…Ensuring ethnic diversity in the pool of potential successors can also enrich the SP process in EI (Kumaran, 2015). Additionally, technology can be a useful tool to store important knowledge as a part of the SP process (Sobel, Drewry, 2015;Yucedag-Ozcan, Metcalfe, 2018). Contrary to the majority support for SP in EIs, Weare (2015) argued that it is not the right approach for academic libraries as it leads to the risk of perpetuating obsolete ideas of the incumbents.…”

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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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