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    Succession planning as a tool for addressing unexpected exits at Trades Union Congress (TUC) Headquarters, Accra
    (KNUST, 2016-11) Aidoo, Charles Collins Mbeah
    Filling of top management positions in labour organizations in Ghana as a result of unexpected exits has in most cases, been chaotic due to the lack of effective succession planning. The main purpose of this study is to investigate how effective succession planning can be used to resolve employees’ unexpected exits at the headquarters of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC). Data was collected from 30 out of 64 full time employees of the case study organization, using questionnaires and interviews, through a non-probability convenient and purposive sampling approach. The data was carefully analyzed with both qualitative and quantitative techniques. The study revealed that even though the TUC effectively employs job rotation, internal promotions and buying-in talents from outside the organization as interim measures to fill unexpected vacancies, effective replacement planning was on the decline. The study further revealed that some managers and talented employees of the TUC leave the organization to other firms for greener pastures and better working conditions. It was again discovered that leadership of the TUC fail to implement succession planning policy in order to hang around for contract after retirement. The study also revealed that complications in the implementation of effective succession planning at the TUC are threat to the organization’s succession planning strategy. The study has therefore recommended that the management of TUC should adopt an effective succession planning model that will deal with unexpected exits in the organization. It was again suggested that management of the TUC must make succession planning policy framework simple and make conscious efforts to implement it. The study also recommended that the management of TUC must take replacement planning very seriously to enable the organization withstand shock as and when it occurs