Succession Planning

Manage key positions to mitigate corporate risks

Good organizations plan for the development of their people to occupy key positions. Succession planning focuses on building pipelines of employees for each key position.

Features

• Allows identification of key positions in the organization and their mapping to required skills, competencies, job descriptions, qualifications and experience profiles.
• Facilitates identification of employees who meet the requirements for these key positions. Sophisticated search mechanisms are available for this.
• Integrates with different EmpXtrack modules to allow on-line viewing of various aspects of an employee for entry into succession pipeline. Some examples are:
  • eAppraisal module displays appraisal scores, relative grading, strengths in core competencies, aspirations and development plans.
  • Employee's Multi-rater (360⁰) feedback gives a view of his acceptability in the environment.
  • Training profile of the employee can be obtained from the Training and Development module.
  • Rewards and Recognition data can be viewed from the HRIS.
  • Critical Incidents Diary displays observed behaviors of the employee during unforeseen incidents.
  • HRIS module provides information about employment history, promotions and qualifications.
• Allows management to create three succession pipelines for each Key Position viz. short-term, medium term and long-term.
• Maps employees to the succession pipelines with a development plan (with milestones) for each employee in each pipeline.
• Notifies the HR administrator of changes in employee's profile such as transfer, promotion, exit etc to enable review of the succession pipelines.
• Provides a comprehensive set of management reports to allow analysis of Key Positions, succession pipelines and development plans for each employee in the pipelines.
• Has the facility to capture inputs from the 'Assessment Center Reports' for an employee.

Integration with other modules

EmpXtrack Succession Planning module integrates with eAppraisal, Training and Development & HRIS modules