Reaction Paper No.6 - Succession Planning - Tanay

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Francis Kim R.

Tanay LIS 152


Reaction Paper:

Succession Planning: For Success

Succession planning, also known as a “replacement planning” aims to create an


established strategy for passing roles to other employee, when a specific person leaves its
institution, may it because of retirement, going for a new opportunity, or had passed away. Upon
reading the article about designing a successful succession plan, there are three general points
that I have learned aside from its main purpose of replacement. The three points are integrity,
accountability, and transparency. So, what are these three things connected in succession
planning?

In an institution, we cannot tell on what may happened in the future for every part can
change through time. Building, equipment, tactics, and other more will definitely change as well
as people contributing to the institution. I remember a statement in one of our LIS, saying that an
institution is dynamic, it is alive. Meaning everything will change overtime. Because of that,
there are plans created by different institutions to anticipate, and prepare to this kind of changes.
One of which is succession planning. This style of planning can be implemented when “...a
critical positions within a company are vacated, unexpectedly, or otherwise”. Because, when
these important positions are missing, institutions may face a bigger challenge that can lead to
their own down fall. But jut what I said earlier, succession planning is not just about
replacement, it is connected to the institution’s integrity, accountability, and transparency. First
is integrity, for succession planning helps to make the structure of a specific institution adaptable
and strong. Having a strong hierarchy, especially in bigger institutions make the workflow
systematic and continuously. We can relate it to a set of gear inside a car, whether they vary in
sizes and form, they are interconnected. Removing one gear will make the whole function stop,
in which the car will not work. Second is accountability, for having a succession requires a
critical evaluation of the skill of the employee that they will choose. With that, these people and
the management are accountable from one another to nurture their skills and help them transition
from one role to another. Lastly is transparency, for succession plan reveals issues that may
happened in the future especially between the person that is going to be replaced and the one
who will replace that person. It also helps the investors become confident on the future of the
institution.

In summary, the existence of succession planning is not only as a reserve or for


emergency purposes. It also exhibits the values of the institution, which shows that they are
responsible in keeping their own institution working in the future.

References

Morris David E. Morris. (2019). How to design a successful succession plan. HR Future,
2019(7), 24-25. https://ezproxy.upd.edu.ph/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=edssas&AN=edssas.om.hrf.jul.2019.a10&site=eds-live

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