Examining the role of management succession planning (MSP) in talent identification and empowerment of human capital in Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Quality and knowledge-based human resources are the most important
competitive advantage and the scarcest source in today's knowledge-based economy.
Hence, the development of the capabilities, expertise, and commitment of well-trained
employees is considered the most important management challenge in our time. The
present study was conducted to investigate the role of Management Succession Planning
(MSP) in human resources talent identification and empowerment of human capitals in
Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: The present study is descriptive-analytic. The population studied was all the staff
of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. Demographic information Mishra and
Spritzer's empowerment, and Oehley's talent management questionnaires were used for
MSP data. Finally, the data were analyzed using t-test, and regression analysis.
Results: The results show a positive and significant correlation between MSP and talent
identification of the University of Medical Sciences. There is also a significant and positive
correlation between MSP and human capital empowerment of the University of Medical
Sciences (0.43). Based on these results, with each unit of change in the variance of talent
identification, 0.18 change occurs in the variance of MSP score; and with each unit change
in empowerment variance, 0.27 change occurs in the variance of MSP score.
Conclusion: It seems that systematic MSP is one of the requirements of the management
system of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. Potential managers need to work
along current experienced managers to take steps in empowering human capitals of the
university by establishing a decent performance assessment system.