Succession planning and workforce plan evaluation

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A succession plan is aimed at considering the future of the employees of a certain organization and at the same time focusing on the continued success of the organization in meeting its set goals . The quality of an organization 's succession planning is closely linked to the organization 's image . Succession planning is one of the most important task that organizations undertake and different organizations will apply succession planning for

different reasons some organizations would like to develop and /or replace the key leaders , others do it so as to clarify the key positions and show the criteria required to fulfil them , others are aimed at developing the criteria for leadership success and practices so as to generate talents that are required to meet the goals of the organization , to specify the leadership strengths and experiences and come up with a pool of talents and other organizations will carry out succession planning so as to provide a value proposition to encourage and retain the key talents in the organization (Schoonover 2002

There was speculation about the future of Apple Inc one the world 's best producer and designer of computer electronics and software products when it announced that Philip Schiller who is the vice president of the company in marketing its products worldwide was to deliver its speech at the Macworld conference instead of the company 's CEO Steve Jobs . Steve who has served...