Purpose – The focus of the paper is a large, national, publicly traded company. As a large number of its workforce consists of “baby boomers”, 50 percent of its employees will be of retirement age within the next five years. Having acknowledged the company's concerns about efficiency of...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how employee development factors directly influence succession planning and indirectly improve employee performance using the tenets of human capital theory. Moreover, whether succession planning enhances employee performance or not?...

In 1989, Reynolds and Reynolds ($600 million; Dayton, Ohio; business forms and computer software company) launched an executive education programme which has achieved excellent results. Being a family controlled organization for a number of years, the new CEO saw the need to clarify the...

Points out that feedback is essential to improve continually the performance and development of executives. However, executives rarely receive specific, candid feedback about their work. Suggests that most of these individuals are left to manage in relative isolation, wondering if others support...

Describes Tenneco as dealing primarily in manufacturing but with major interests in energy. Addresses issues of executive development including quality and availability of management, appointment strategies for key management and their system for succession planning. Discusses the Executive...

Purpose – Family firms appear to be an attractive topic in a number of research areas. Probably the most important topic is still the succession process combined with possible hurdles and gaps. This paper aims to focus on the special variable of the psychological dimension. It attempts to...

The paper elaborates on succession planning among Polish family businesses. Research survey was conducted on a random sample of 496 family enterprises in first quarter of 2009 (first phase, survey) and 61 family enterprises in third quarter of 2009 (second phase, in-depth-interview). The main...

Purpose – The paper aims to at CEO succession in light of regulations and post‐SOX dynamics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines CEO succession in light of regulations and post‐SOX dynamics. Findings – It has been increasingly argued that the formal CEO succession process...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to look at CEO succession in light of regulations and post‐Sarbanes‐Oxley (post‐SOX) dynamics. Design/methodology/approach – Describes best‐in‐class practices for boards of directors responsible for CEO succession. Findings – Finds that the...

Purpose – The paper discusses some finer points on CEO succession. Design/methodology/approach – This as a viewpoint paper in which the authors discuss the merits and disadvantages of various approaches to CEO succession Findings – CEO succession planning is a fundamental element of...