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Swanson, Matthew A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Higher education institutions provide programs and services in support of personal, professional, and community development. The positive impact of higher education is threatened by the imminent departures of experienced employees responsible for implementing institutional programs and services. Research suggests succession planning assists…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Occupational Mobility, Higher Education, Community Colleges
Anita R. Tillson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative case study aimed to identify and describe the use of succession planning found in an educational environment, and the perceptions of administrators and teachers regarding its use. Succession planning was said to be a systematic process to identify, develop, and grow individuals for greater responsibility in the…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Strategic Planning
Ritchie, Margaret – Management in Education, 2020
This article, as an opinion piece, considers the importance of developing a succession plan that can be implemented when a vacancy occurs in school leadership. While succession planning is a common practice within corporations, businesses and governments, schools also have to be thoughtful and prepared for change. A change in leadership can be…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Instructional Leadership, Change, Principals
Maurice Marlon Lewin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The need within the global value chain for more highly trained and skilled workers, along with the exit of 'baby boomers' from the workplace and the impact of the 'great resignation,' has compounded the pool of candidates for future leadership roles. Recognizing the profound expectation that a good leader identifies and develops their successor,…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Human Resources, Occupational Mobility, Planning
Schlesser, Heather; Stuttgen, Sandra; Binversie, Liz; Kirkpatrick, Joy – Journal of Extension, 2021
Planning for farm succession is vital to the longevity of the farm business. To understand the challenges with succession planning, the University of Wisconsin - Division of Extension facilitated focus group meetings across the state. These authors classified the information from the focus groups into eight codes, and each code was further…
Descriptors: Planning, Agricultural Occupations, Barriers, Money Management
Sevier, Charmaine L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Community Colleges were thrust to the forefront to develop, train, and re-train American workers for an altered labor environment. This occurred at a period of time when community colleges experienced their own reductions in workforce due to retirements. The business industry had long been a consumer of succession planning which utilized the…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, Employees, Employee Attitudes, Labor Turnover
Tietjen-Smith, Tara; Hersman, Bethany; Block, Betty A. – Quest, 2020
The role of the department head is one of the most vital and challenging positions held within higher education. Due to lack of training, many department heads experience role strain and subsequent burnout. This leads to a high turnover rate for administrators at this level. Succession planning, realized through a strong mentoring program and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Kinesiology, Department Heads, Leadership Training
Shannon Marie Eskam – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Leadership theories and their application to various leadership positions is a heavily researched field. Specific research has been conducted examining leadership theories of both middle level and senior level leaders individually (Amey et al., 2020; Eddy and Mitchell, 2017; Hernandez and Hernandez, 2014. However, an examination of leadership…
Descriptors: Administrators, Middle Management, Community Colleges, Leadership
Wilson, Thomas Brent – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Public charter school boards and their superintendents have a responsibility to plan for the future, including for the next school superintendent. Superintendents serve as the Chief Executive Officer responsible for overseeing academic, financial, and operational performance of the school system. The job of school superintendent is very complex…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Superintendents, Administrator Role
Tucker, Cheryl A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Institute of Medicine (2011) challenged nursing to ensure the nursing workforce includes a sufficient number of academic nurse leaders, nurse educators, and doctorally prepared nurses for the future healthcare needs of the people of the United States. National data reveals a fragile supply of academic nurse educators and leaders. This tenuous…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Nursing Education, Evidence Based Practice, Guidance Programs
Jackson, LeKeisha D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Guided by the research questions, this study utilized a sequential explanatory mixed methods research design to examine senior executive leadership succession planning at four-year, predominately white, doctoral universities in the state of Georgia. Utilizing the Representative Bureaucracy theory and the Mateso SPM conceptual model, this study…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Administrative Change, Mixed Methods Research
Parfitt, Christopher M. – Education Leadership Review, 2017
Businesses, non-profit entities, medical units, governmental departments, and other organizations have utilized succession planning for over 30 years, yet the field of education has been slow to adopt models used in other disciplines. Upon review of the literature from various disciplines, themes for developing and assessing quality succession…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Employees, Organizational Culture
Irby, Beverly J.; Abdelrahman, Nahed; Cajiao-Wingenbach, Laura; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Tong, Fuhui – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
A succession planning study with 100 sitting superintendents randomly selected from the 20 Education Service Centers across Texas. The superintendents are being interviewed and are providing their campus and district leadership pathway practices (administrative succession planning practices). The first three interview findings which provide a type…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Education Service Centers, School Districts, Principals
Toole, Brandon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative meta-synthesis sought to identify and uncover the challenges that Higher Education Institutions experience when implementing and maintaining a succession management program. Through a blended-theory approach, the theoretical framework combined Human Capital Theory (Schultz, 1961), Transformational Leadership Theory (Downton,…
Descriptors: College Administration, Administrative Change, Faculty Mobility, Higher Education
Sobel, Karen; Drewry, Josiah – Public Services Quarterly, 2015
Detailed succession planning helps libraries pass information from one employee to the next. This is crucial in preparing for hiring, turnover, retirements, training of graduate teaching assistants in academic libraries, and other common situations. The authors of this article discuss succession planning for instruction programs in academic…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Administrative Change, Academic Libraries, Change Strategies