Succession Planning and Situational Engagement

Succession planning is the creation of a pool of high potential employees that receive specific training and developmental opportunities with the intention of promotion. There is a definite need to deepen our understanding of what implications there are from a psychological point of view for employees when a major process like succession planning is implemented. Employee engagement is the experienced commitment, which leads to discretionary effort. The purpose of this research is to explore an underlying factor structure for engagement drivers and understand how a major organizational initiative, succession planning, impacts employee engagement. This research was conducted at a petroleum organization in the Southwest United States (N = 2023) and compares engagement based on group membership in a succession planning process (Informed-High Status, Uninformed-High Status, and Uninformed-Low Status). The underlying factor structure of drivers was found to have one factor of engagement. There was a significant difference in the engagement levels based on membership within the succession plan (high status versus low status). However, communicating to an employee their involvement in the succession plan did not differentiate between engagement levels.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2007

Author dc:creator

• Hobson, Nicole DeJarnett

Contributors dc:contributor

• Beyerlein, Michael
• Doster, Joseph A., 1943-
• Hayslip, Bert
• Najar, Michael J.

• succession planning
• employee engagement
• ingroup
• high status
• low status
• Employees -- Training of.
• Career development.
• Employee motivation.

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Hobson, Nicole DeJarnett
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 229447670
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5168/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc5168

OAI identifier oai:identifier

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