Succession Planning Framework for Talented Employees in Iranian Healthcare Companies

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Document Type : Research Paper

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2 Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Accounting, University of Sistan and Baluchistan

10.22111/jmr.2025.50545.6304

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SSuccession planning helps minimize skills gaps and improve business performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the succession planning of talented employees in Iranian private companies. This research is of a qualitative, developmental, interpretive, and inductive nature, conducted with a grounded data approach. The statistical population of the study consists of twelve academic experts and participants who work in semi-governmental companies and were selected through a theoretical method. A total of 480 open codes were identified and categorized into 197 abstract concepts. The abstract concepts were placed in 43 subcategories, and after reviewing and analyzing the subcategories, 17 main categories emerged from them. The subcategories answer the central questions of the grounded data theory. Thus, the causal factors affecting the succession planning phenomenon were placed in two main categories: succession requirements and communication and networking. The pivotal phenomenon of whistleblowing refers to succession planning and talent acquisition policies. The background conditions affecting succession planning strategies are divided into four categories: educational development, soft strategies, hard strategies, and sectoral legal strategies; the interfering factors affecting succession planning strategies refer to obstacles to succession planning, the evaluation process, and selection criteria. But what are the succession planning strategies in Iranian quality companies? They are supportive-psychological, radical, participatory-transformational, and knowledge-building strategies. In addition to the aforementioned, the consequences of implementing succession planning include; individual, organizational, supra-organizational, and knowledge-based consequences.

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Public Management Researches

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 18 February 2026

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