Question

The CEO/chairman of PharmaPacifica was recently killed in an airplane crash. This tragedy has thrown PharmaPacifica into turmoil as there is no one in the organization qualified to step into the former CEO’s shoes. This is an example of:

Answer 1

Answer:

A failure or lack of succession management

Explanation:

The going concern of any business should always be its top priority. This is the reason why every organization should have a good succession planning and management in place.

Succession management is a process of having in place a program that prepares and equips potential leaders with adequate experience and skills to take over from incumbent leaders whenever they are out of service , so that the business can maintain its existence into the future.

In a situation where a succession management is not in place or effective , the death of a leader causes a major setback to the business as can be seen in the question.