The reality of leadership succession planning in the general administration of the Palestinian Electricity Distribution Company, according to Seven-star Rothwell’s model

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the reality of practicing leadership succession planning in the general management of the Palestinian Electricity Company in the southern governorates (Gaza Strip), in addition to identifying the challenges that impede the practice of succession planning and its effectiveness. This study followed the analytical descriptive method and a questionnaire as collecting tools and applied them to supervisory staff in the general management of the company by using the comprehensive survey method. A total of 102 male and female employees participated, and 93 valid questionnaires were recovered for analysis, with a recovery rate of 91.2%. The most important results showed that the general management of the company practices leadership succession planning in all its stages to a medium degree. The results also showed that there are a number of obstacles and challenges that impede the effective practice of the leadership succession planning process, such as the lack of background knowledge of successful experiences for this kind of planning and the weakness of the evaluation system associated with the succession planning process. and the lack of sufficient conviction to spread the culture of planning to successive leaderships among the management of the company. The statistical software program (SPSS V24) was used to test and analyze the data. One of the key recommendations of the study was to give more attention to the leadership succession planning process and work on addressing the challenges that reduce its effectiveness within the company.