Background information about succession planning and management -- Trend influencing succession planning and management -- Moving to a state-of-the-art approach -- Competency identification, values clarification, and ethics: key to succession planning and management -- Making the case for major change -- Starting a systematic program -- Refining the program -- Assessing present work requirement and individual job performance -- Assessing future work requirements and individual potential -- Developing internal successors -- Assessing alternatives to internal development -- Integrating recruitment with succession planning -- Integrating retention with succession planning -- Using technology to support succession planning and management programs -- Evaluating succession planning management program -- The Future of succession planning and management

1. Leadership
2. Executive succession -- United States
3. Executive ability
4. Organizational effectiveness