The role of organisational culture during the implementation of internal succession planning within Malaysian research universities

• Main Author: Keerio, Nazia
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: HF5549-5549.5 Personnel management. Employment management
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1830/2/NAZIA%20KEERIO%20-%20declaration.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1830/1/NAZIA%20KEERIO%20-%2024p.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1830/3/NAZIA%20KEERIO%20-%20full%20text.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1830/

Succession planning is not new to academia and many institutions have supported these programs for years. Few, however, have adopted formal succession planning strategies that are both strategic and deliberate and encompass the full spectrum of succession planning activities. However, less is understood about the role of culture on succession planning within public universities in Malaysia. Nevertheless; there is an absence of a comprehensive conceptual model of the culture-succession relationship in the literature that includes the impact of moderators such as national culture. A mixed mode design was adopted by the study where qualitative data was first collected, analyzed and then used to develop a survey instrument for the quantitative phase of the study. The study surveyed 375 academic staff of the five research universities in Malaysia, and the results were analyzed using the IBM SPSS for Windows and PLS-SEM. A structural model was built to identify the relationship between the organisational culture and succession planning and the moderating effect of the national culture in public research universities. The study's findings showed that succession planning is still new to public universities in Malaysia and training and development are still unstructured. Although there was a positive and significant relationship between organisational culture and succession planning, whereas, findings suggested national culture showed a moderating effect on the relationship of organisational culture and succession planning. The model can help to analyze organisational culture in order to change the Malaysian public universities’ strategy to implement succession planning.