APQC's Passport to Success Series/Succession Management

To foster growth and support their cultures, organizations must implement strategic and systematic succession management plans that ensure staff members are capable and ready to assume key or critical roles when needed. Organizations that neglect to manage their employees' development and placement not only pay the higher cost of locating appropriate external candidates, but also face difficulties in assimilating these new hires to the organizations' culture and values.

The Succession Management Passport details what is required to establish and deploy a succession management effort. Examples from best-practice organizations reveal how to identify potential, develop that potential, and then retain existing employees, as well as how to gauge the results of those efforts.

APQC's Passport to Success series consist of easy-to-use, low-priced resource guides that help readers understand and implement programs and processes in a variety of functional areas. These books are intended to guide readers on what can be a difficult journey through somewhat foreign territory.