A Succession Management Model in the Ministry of Sport and Youth: Grounded Theory

Succession is considered as a planning to identify, appoint and replace competent people in key positions to advance the goals of the organization. The study is to design a native model of succession management in the Ministry of Sport and Youth through qualitative and exploratory-fundamental research method. The research data were collected through the purposive sampling with snow ball technique and by semi-structured interviews with 19 academic experts and individuals with managerial experiences in the Ministry of Sport and Youth. The data which were analyzed in two stages of real coding and theoretical coding, designed the grounded model.The results showed that for implementation of succession for initial context, a set of requirements, including culture, support and commitment of senior managers, transparency in affairs of management of human resources, legal requirements, economic support, establishment of a meritocracy system is required. In addition, the necessary executive measures were classified in six stages, respectively, including identification of the promoters, the determination of succession committee, the identification of key posts, the determination of the entering of individuals to the succession plan, assessment and selection of candidates, and enablers of candidates. Finally, it has been found that the talented employees can be identified by deployment of succession planning.