Abstract
Succession planning enables internal people with the potential, to develop and fill key leadership positions in the library. This study sought to understand how academic libraries apply succession plan in their management. In this paper the researchers identified and discussed various succession planning strategies that exist in academic libraries, analyzed the benefits they accrue to their respective libraries and the challenges faced by library management in implementing the succession plan strategies. Through random sampling technique the researchers sampled various senior university staff from 5 academic libraries in Kenya. Questionnaires and focus group discussions were used to collect.
Highlights
Succession planning according to (Rothwell, 2010) is anticipating change in management, creating strategic plan to identify potential staff members, determining the gap in their knowledge, providing training, coaching, special assignments and experience so that they are ready to step up when the time comes
This paper recommends that universities adopt a succession planning program to limit the negative effect including key staff members such as University librarians, Systems librarian among others resign from libraries.The paper goes ahead and develops a 6 step guide to establish the program
This paper has identified steps that an academic library would take to come up with a viable succession planning program
Summary
Succession planning according to (Rothwell, 2010) is anticipating change in management, creating strategic plan to identify potential staff members, determining the gap in their knowledge, providing training, coaching , special assignments and experience so that they are ready to step up when the time comes This strategy is widely in practice in large private companies but has not been taken up by librarians. Kenya Commercial Bank identified an insider, Joshua Oigara to take over as CEO following the expiry of Martin Oduor-Otieno tenure, Martin Oduor Otieno had himself been tapped from within KCB to replace CEO Terry Davidson in May, 2007; Kenya Airways has already identified Mbuvi Ngunze to take over after the expiry of current CEO Titus Naikuni tenure This shows well established succession planning program within some organizations. Years we have had University librarian vacancies in most of the libraries like Kenya
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