Who's Next? Succession Planning Paves a Path to Your Organization's Future

Succession planning in health care organizations.

Evaluation of training courses applied in succession planning in organizations using the CIPP model

The objective of this study was to examine the evaluation of training courses applied in succession planning in organizations using the CIPP model. This was an applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of data gathering type. Statistical population of the study included 100 employees of Chamber of Commerce, of which a sample size of 80 people were selected using the r...

Using CEO Succession to Integrate Acquired Organizations: A Contingency Analysis

Related acquisition involves the purchase and consolidation of firms in the same or related product markets (Ansoff and Weston, 1962; Chatterjee, 1992; Datta, 1991; Datta and Grant, 1990; Harrison et al., 1991). Research has shown that about half of related acquisition activities fail to achieve expected economic and synergistic benefits (Fairburn and Geroski, 1989). Such failures have been att...

A Path to an Ontology of Organizations

This paper presents a preliminary proposal of an ontology of organizations based on DOLCE (Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering). An ontological analysis of organizations is the first, fundamental and ineliminable pillar on which to build a precise and rigourous enterprise modelling. An ontological analysis makes explicit the social structure that underlies every organi...

Personal courage paves a course for the future.

A fter graduating from a threeyear diploma RN program in 1974 at the age of 20, I became a nurse manager one year later. There were days when I felt like I really helped people. And there were days I needed help myself and went home feeling defeated and frustrated wondering why I went into nursing; dealing with demanding patients, demanding doctors, lack of time, and no solution in sight. Then,...