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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101412842360

ISBN-139781412842365

eBay Product ID (ePID)102792232

Product Key Features

Number of Pages172 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLeadership Succession

Publication Year2011

SubjectLeadership, Human Resources & Personnel Management, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBusiness & Economics

AuthorStewart D. Friedman

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2011-000831

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal658.4/0711

SynopsisThis volume focuses on the most critical strategic activity in any organization, namely, who gets chosen to sit in the top echelon of the pyramid. Friedman argues that it is the quality of corporate leadership that will determine corporate winners and losers in the global competitive game. The stakes in leadership succession are high. The selection of key figures is the one human resource activity that no one belittles for being of secondary importance. Indeed, leadership succession is so important and central in many executive minds that it crowds out any other work. The succession process is often fraught with political intrigue, it lacks discipline, and excludes meaningful involvement of senior human resource executives. The contributors to this imaginative volume reveal a succession planning process that is frequently sloppy, superficial, and regularly sabotaged by senior management when they give it short shrift in terms of quality time. In addition, senior management often overrides sound decisions when it comes to filling key positions. The result is a lack of integrity throughout the human resource systems that eventually leads to a collapse of belief in the system and its governance. Noel M. Tichy, a leading figure in the studies of human resource management, has said, "Stewart Friedman is to be congratulated for a successful effort in providing a state of the art look at leadership succession. He] provides us with an empirical database of what is happening in U.S. corporations, helpful prescriptions for future improvement of leadership succession, and a realistic assessment of the human resource executive challenges in this area.", This volume focuses on the most critical strategic activity in any organization, namely, who gets chosen to sit in the top echelon of the pyramid. Friedman argues that it is the quality of corporate leadership that will determine corporate winners and losers in the global competitive game.The stakes in leadership succession are high. The selection of key figures is the one human resource activity that no one belittles for being of secondary importance. Indeed, leadership succession is so important and central in many executive minds that it crowds out any other work. The succession process is often fraught with political intrigue, it lacks discipline, and excludes meaningful involvement of senior human resource executives.The contributors to this imaginative volume reveal a succession planning process that is frequently sloppy, superficial, and regularly sabotaged by senior management when they give it short shrift in terms of quality time. In addition, senior management often overrides sound decisions when it comes to filling key positions. The result is a lack of integrity throughout the human resource systems that eventually leads to a collapse of belief in the system and its governance.Noel M. Tichy, a leading figure in the studies of human resource management, has said, "Stewart Friedman is to be congratulated for a successful effort in providing a state of the art look at leadership succession. [He] provides us with an empirical database of what is happening in U.S. corporations, helpful prescriptions for future improvement of leadership succession, and a realistic assessment of the human resource executive challenges in this area.", Focuses on the most critical strategic activity in any organisation, namely, who gets chosen to sit in the top echelon of the pyramid. It argues that it is the quality of corporate leadership that will determine corporate winners and losers in the global competitive game. The selection of key figures is the one human resource activity that no one belittles for being of secondary importance. Indeed, leadership succession is so important in many executive minds that it crowds out any other work.

LC Classification NumberHD38.25.U6L43 2011