An effective succession management can prepare an organization to have potential employees for filling future critical vacancies of senior management positions. Studies show that effective succession management goes hand in hand with succession planning which guarantees continuity of leadership in the top and middle levels. This study aims at determining the main factors promoting the implementation of succession management in the Egyptian pharmaceutical organizations and how Egyptian pharmaceutical organizations' managers in different managerial levels perceive them. Also determining the main restraining forces inhibiting the implementation of succession management in the Egyptian pharmaceutical organizations and how Egyptian pharmaceutical organizations' managers in different managerial levels perceive them.
The results of the study shows that most of the opinions in the study sample agree that the factors studied represent the main promoting and restraining forces that affect the implantation of succession management. The Chi-square test was used to test the significance of the differences between the frequencies allocated to different degrees of agreement and it can be concluded that there are statistically significant differences between the frequencies allocated to different degrees of agreement to each item (P-value < 0.05), and these differences are in favor of the opinions that obtained the largest percentage of the frequencies (agree/strongly agree), and this in turn supports the study hypothesis