The Impact of Succession Planning on Enhancing Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Field Study at Tikrit University

The study aims to determine the extent to which succession planning contributes to enhancing organizational citizenship behavior at Tikrit University. The research hypotheses were the availability of the dimensions of succession planning and the dimensions of organizational citizenship in the university under study, and the existence of significant correlations and influence between each succession planning and organizational citizenship behavior. The research community was identified with the teaching and administrative staff of Tikrit University, consisting of (280) people, and a survey was conducted on a random sample of them, numbering (158) individuals. All distributed questionnaires were retrieved with a recovery rate of 100%, while the questionnaires suitable for analysis were (120), representing (75.9%) of the total questionnaires returned. The data were analyzed and hypotheses were tested using the statistical analysis program SPSS V.26. The study reached a number of results, most notably: There is a high level of application of both succession planning and organizational citizenship behavior at Tikrit University. The results also showed that there is a positive and moderate significant correlation between succession planning and organizational citizenship behavior at the university under study. The results also showed a statistically significant effect of succession planning methods combined in enhancing organizational citizenship behavior at Tikrit University, which explains 29.5% of the changes in the dependent variable. In addition, there was a statistically significant positive effect for all dimensions of succession planning in enhancing organizational citizenship behavior at Tikrit University, where promotion was the most influential on organizational citizenship behavior, followed by job rotation, training, and finally job transfer.