For your final project, you will complete a succession plan for an organization of your choice.. Company Name: AMAZON Succession Planning Project Overview
For your final project, you will complete a succession plan for an organization of your choice..
Company Name: AMAZON
Succession Planning Project Overview
Using the material learned in your degree program, the information in this course, and additional research, develop a comprehensive succession plan for a real organization. The organization can be based anywhere in the world. If you select an international organization, keep in mind the global and cultural factors. You may also use your current organization as the basis of the succession plan, if the organization is of sufficient size to justify a meaningful project paper.
Assume the role of chairman of the board (or similar position) of this organization. You have recently received the resignation of the CEO (or similar position), a highly successful and charismatic leader who has held this post for the past twelve years. (The real-life company should have a current [sitting] CEO who has been in that role for at least three years, preferably longer.)
As the chairman of the board, how will you ensure that the organization continues to thrive, and not merely survive, without the current CEO?
Your task is to design a comprehensive strategy for selecting a successor and ensuring ongoing success with a new leader at the helm of the organization.
Course Project—Succession Plan
Wk1
Organizational selection, background, and situation analysis
- Identify your subject organization.
- Describe mission, culture, and leadership structure.
- Analyze current organizational challenges.
- Evaluate impact of CEO resignation.
This Week
Identify your subject organization and describe its history, background, products, services, management structure, culture, mission, and any current challenges. Include your analysis of how the organization would be affected if the current CEO were to actually resign.
Submission Details:
- Submit your paper as a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
- Each Covered Heading must contain 3+ credible cited sources and a conclusion summarizing talking points.
- Due by 4/29/25 at 12:30am CST
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main post. This adds credibility to your argument.
[Textbooks]:
Hughes, R. L., Beatty, K. C., & Dinwoodie, D. L. (2014). Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 978-1-118-56723-4
and
Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2017). The Leadership Challenge, (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Wiley. 9781119278962
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin
Project: Organizational Selection
For your final project, you will complete a succession plan for an organization of your choice..
Company Name: AMAZON
Succession Planning Project Overview
Using the material learned in your degree program, the information in this course, and additional research, develop a comprehensive succession plan for a real organization. The organization can be based anywhere in the world. If you select an international organization, keep in mind the global and cultural factors. You may also use your current organization as the basis of the succession plan, if the organization is of sufficient size to justify a meaningful project paper.
Assume the role of chairman of the board (or similar position) of this organization. You have recently received the resignation of the CEO (or similar position), a highly successful and charismatic leader who has held this post for the past twelve years. (The real-life company should have a current [sitting] CEO who has been in that role for at least three years, preferably longer.)
As the chairman of the board, how will you ensure that the organization continues to thrive, and not merely survive, without the current CEO?
Your task is to design a comprehensive strategy for selecting a successor and ensuring ongoing success with a new leader at the helm of the organization.
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Week # |
Course Project—Succession Plan |
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Organizational selection, background, and situation analysis · Identify your subject organization. · Describe mission, culture, and leadership structure. · Analyze current organizational challenges. · Evaluate impact of CEO resignation. |
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3 |
Current CEO profile, Competency model identification, Strategic sourcing and recruitment of CEO talent · Provide a detailed analysis and observation of the organization's current CEO, his or her strengths, weaknesses, leadership and communication styles, and personal characteristics that make this leader dynamic and successful. · Describe and evaluate the attributes of the current leader including both desirable and undesirable traits for the successor. · Discuss the methods and tactics to identify, recruit, screen, and assess candidates (both internally and externally) for the CEO position. |
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5 |
Reengineering of the organization's management and performance models to reflect the new leadership paradigm, Process for ensuring success of new CEO, and Plan for evaluating effectiveness of succession plan · Describe the potential impact of a new CEO on the organization, its employees, and its performance. How will the organization need to restructure its performance model(s) to reflect the leadership style and competencies of the new CEO? How will this changing of the guard impact office politics and team performance How will you mitigate resistance to change, particularly among organizational groups that are fiercely loyal to the current CEO? · Explain how you will identify, utilize, and analyze various accountability processes such as executive coaching, storyboarding, work agreements, and project management processes to ensure the successful completion of your succession plan. Select the accountability processes you believe will be the most effective and describe their implementation and evaluation. · Explain how you will identify, utilize, and analyze various metrics, such as a 360-degree feedback, employee surveys, focus groups, and performance reports, to evaluate the efficacy of your succession plan. Select the metrics you believe will be the most effective and describe their implementation and evaluation. |
This Week
Identify your subject organization and describe its history, background, products, services, management structure, culture, mission, and any current challenges. Include your analysis of how the organization would be affected if the current CEO were to actually resign.
Submission Details:
· Submit your paper as a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
1. Each Covered Heading must contain 3+ credible cited sources and a conclusion summarizing talking points.
1. Due by 4/29/25 at 12:30am CST
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbooks]: Hughes, R. L., Beatty, K. C., & Dinwoodie, D. L. (2014). Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 978-1-118-56723-4 and Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2017). The Leadership Challenge , (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Wiley. 9781119278962
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin
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