Role of Succession Planning in Employee Satisfaction: An Empirical Study of Middle Level Employees of IT Companies in India

Abstract

Succession planning has been considered, to promote big-picture growth and enables, an employer to shape the mind-set that’s key for continuity. During the long run, the succession planning amongst the middle level employees in an IT industry, strengthens the overall functionality of the employer through, identifying their vital positions and thus, also highlighting vacancies; by helping them select key competencies as well as, capabilities which are therefore, necessary for a company’s continuity. It plays an immensely, important role because succession planning is very strategic and measurable to acquire the desires and initiatives. Through this discussion, it is also going to help us understand that succession planning is a great way for IT companies that certainly make, organisations fully organised to promote and improve all employees especially middle-level employees- not just those individuals who, are at the management or government levels. Succession making plans is utilised, by groups to streamline the technique regarding an exchange of management or ownership. This research work will also let us understand how, succession planning is a business approach towards middle level employee satisfaction for passing management role on to several other employees in IT companies of India. The results also suggested that, to enhance succession planning strategic innovation are being developed to train and develop employees in IT industries of India. Sample of 213 people from different IT companies to the role of succession planning in employee satisfaction among middle level employees of IT companies in India and found that successful planning helps an organisation to identify and develop high-performers and brings huge change in organisational culture and management.