Contact the HR manager at a firm in your area and find out whether the firm uses any of the following:

(a) skills/management inventories,

(b) replacement charts or summaries, and

(c) a succession plan.

Prepare a brief summary of the information gathered.

Once you have completed these tasks, form a group with several of your classmates. Share your findings with the group members. Were there similarities across firms? Did company size seem to make a difference in terms of strategies used for forecasting the supply of internal candidates? Can you identify any other factors that seem to play a role in the choice of forecasting techniques used? LO.1