Identifying and ranking the components of the model of succession management of organizational knowledge workers in Port and Maritime organizations of Iran (case study: Hormozgan Port and Maritime Authority)

The purpose of this study is to identify and rank the components of the model of succession management of organizational knowledge workers in the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran. The present research is applied in terms of orientation and descriptive-survey in terms of purpose and has been done in a quantitative method. Data collection tool is a questionnaire that was conducted with the cooperation of 306 organizational knowledge workers and staff.  In the analysis of the collected data, the identification components are ranked using the factor analysis model and the use of Smart PLS software. According to the results, the model of succession management of organizational knowledge workers in the Ports and Maritime Organization has five dimensions and eleven components and the results showed that the components of in-service methods and individual factors had the highest and lowest priority in model design, respectively.