Succession planning : phase II.

Details

• Creators:
  Tuttle, Douglas F.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Delaware. Dept. of Transportation ; University of Delaware. Institute for Public Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Education And Training Employee Relations Employees Highway Departments--Delaware--Planning. Highway Transport Workers--Delaware--Recruiting Recruiting Vocational Guidance
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Delaware
• Corporate Publisher:
  Delaware Center for Transportation
• Abstract:
  Succession planning is an organizational investment in the future. Institutional
  
  knowledge is a critical ingredient in the culture of an organization, and its intangible
  
  value becomes significant when an organization is faced with the need to pass this
  
  knowledge to a new generation of leaders or employees in key positions. An
  
  exploration of the current situation in the Delaware Department of Transportation
  
  (DelDOT) was undertaken during Phase I of this project, which resulted in the
  
  development of three recommendations for future action. This Phase II report details
  
  the findings related to two of those recommendations: focusing effort on reducing
  
  vacancy rates within the Planner Series and establishing a Senior Mentoring Program
  
  within DelDOT.
  
  The analysis of current, successful DelDOT efforts to recruit Engineers and the
  
  availability of Planner programs at regional institutions of higher education resulted in
  
  the development of a conceptual model for Planner recruitment. Utilization of this
  
  model should directly address vacancy rates in the Planner series.
  
  Regarding the establishment of a Senior Mentoring Program within DelDOT, the
  
  research findings highlight best practices regarding mentoring programs among
  
  comparable organizations. This project also produced the wholly unexpected result of
  
  discovering that a mentoring program already existed within the agency – but that it had
  
  not been utilized by the staff of the Planning Department.
  
  On the whole, this project directly illustrates the practical benefit of applied research.
  
  The recommendations that have been developed could be implemented in short order.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b1fb8850be8dc53682df34633d55c92fb7b34669b4af2ec467965eeeae0b22ca
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17963/dot_17963_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.29 MB ]