Assignment: Literature Review Purpose To assess your ability to research scholarly and professional sources as you complete a literature review. Overview What is a Literature Review? Think of a literature review as a helpful guide to the topic of your research. It is a document that will inform a person, with little or no knowledge of your research topic, of ways to investigate that topic. "A literature review surveys scholarly articles, books and other sources (e.g. dissertations, conference proceedings) relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory, providing a description, summary, and critical evaluation of each work. The purpose is to offer an overview of significant literature published on a topic." (University of California Santa Cruz, 2005, para.1). Now that you have an approved briefing document and have established your benchmarks, assessment criteria, and communication schedule, you are ready to begin your research. Refer to the Key Points in Overview of A Conference Paper for additional information. The Franklin University Library Guide Academic Writing Guide may be helpful to get you started. Action Items 1. Review the Grading Rubric (below) for this assignment. 2. Begin your research. 3. Review the following information regarding literature reviews: 1. Franklin Library Literature Review guide 2. Literature Review sample 3. Literature Review sample 4. 5. Access the databases on the Franklin University Nationwide Library Web site. Determine which databases are most appropriate for your research. If you have a question about the databases, contact a librarian. Locate and read scholarly books that are appropriate for your research. Avoid trade books. 6. Be organized. Create a system for recording/documenting the information you are researching about your topic. Consider using software specifically created for this purpose. There are multiple methods for keeping your information organized. Discuss this with your professor. 7. Complete your research. When you feel that you have exhausted all avenues to access information about your topic, your research is complete. 8. Organize your literature according to your subtopics. Consider creating an outline to organize your thoughts. Discuss your organization of subtopics with your professor and mentor. 9. Write a first draft of your literature review. Keep in mind that your literature review will be approximately half of your 20-page paper. 10. Edit your draft. Keep in mind that your goal is to submit your paper to a conference committee of a professional organization. Remember to cite all sources in APA format. You may find the following resources helpful: 1. APA Style 2. APA Sample Paper by Jeffery Kahn 3. UWF Library APA Examples 11. Submit your Literature Review to turnitin.com. (Review About TurnItIn.com in Student Toolkit.) 12. Make any changes needed after receiving your originality report from Turnitin.com. 13. Email a copy of the originality report received from Turnitin.com to your professor. Submission Instructions Upload your literature review using the Submit tool. Email a copy of the originality report received from Turnitin.com to your professor. Grading Criteria Points will be allocated based on the Grading Rubric for this assignment: 0 - 100 points Sample APA Papers: Literature Review This section offers a sample literature review, written by an undergraduate psychology student at Purdue University. Since it's a real paper written by a real student, we haven't corrected the student's errors, but have instead included comments that point them out. If you have a comment you'd like to add to the paper, send us an e-mail at link@owl.english.purdue.edu and we'd be glad to add it. We've marked up the paper with sample comments from various psychology teachers that comment on the paper's format, content, and use of APA style. 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If you have a comment you'd like to add to the paper, send us an e-mail at link@owl.english.purdue.edu and we'd be glad to add it. We've marked up the paper with sample comments from various psychology teachers that comment on the paper's format, content, and use of APA style. The following information must remain intact on every handout printed for distribution. This page is located at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/APA/print/papers/litreview.html Copyright 1995-2003 by OWL at Purdue University and Purdue University. All rights reserved. Use of this site, including printing and distributing our handouts, constitutes acceptance of our terms and conditions of fair use, available at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/fairuse.html. To contact OWL, please visit our contact information page at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/contact.html to find the right person to call or email. Running Head: IMPORTANCE OF SUCCESSION PLANNING IN TOURISM IN OMAN 1 To: From: Date: Subject : Pemmaraju Nasima Al Balushi November 21th, 2016 Business Brief 2: Literature Review Importance Of Succession Planning In Tourism In Oman ABSTRACT This report explains the importance of succession planning in tourism sector Oman with an objective of encouraging individuals and institutions to embrace this vital plan. In this report, I will also explain what succession planning is all about by using day-to-day examples. Firstly, allow us to perceive what succession planning all is regarding, before exploring its varied advantages. Company succession planning will be outlined as a method that permits firms to spot and develop internal individuals with a particular objective of filling key business leadership positions within the company. Effective company succession planning will increase the provision of capable people who are ready to assume such roles as they become on the market. Thus, one in all the advantages of succession planning is reduced risk related to a loss of fully-fledged leadership. Alternative advantages embody strengthening division relationship; it additionally enhances correct name of the corporate or establishment to the public. Succession planning being terribly important, it will facilitate sustain financial gain of a company support expenses among alternative advantages. Understanding the advantages of succession planning it becomes imperative to understand that effective talent-pool management is not merely regarding positiondriven replacement. It is a well-planned out, semi-permanent method that is regarding building variety of the alleged "feeder groups" of qualified candidates, able to fill in vacancies as they emerge. What distinguishes high-performing organizations from underperforming ones is that the indisputable fact that in entities perceive the advantages of succession planning and so interact in it on a nonstop basis. In alternative words, their leadership perceives company succession planning as investment, and not an expense (Al-Wahaibi, 2015). 2 IMPORTANCE OF SUCCESSION PLANNING IN TOURISM IN OMAN INTRODUCTION Oman is an Arab country within the geographic region. It is the region on the peninsula. It includes encompassing desert landscape, bed oasis and long outline on the Persian Gulf, sea and the Gulf of Muscat and Oman. Wahaibi Sands is a section of dunes settled by Bedouins. The port capital Muscat may be a true home to the huge modern-day ruler Qaboos Grand masjid, and the previous city district Muttrah quarter, with a labyrinthine market square and occupied food market. This short background of Muscat and Oman simply attempts to spell it out the made background and the marvel of this region to all or any of these alternative worlds. It very is one among the countries that use the monarchical reasonably federal still. In keeping with AlWahaibi (2015)," Qaboos Bin Said Al Said has been Oman's sultan, Prime minister and foreign minister since he seized power from his father in 1970". He's additionally the highest of the protection and also the funding minister"(Al-Wahaibi, 2015). The economy of this country is since time immemorial has depended on oil mining as the main economic activity that has boosted so many sectors in the country. In the recent past, it has been realized that oil mines are being depleted and so has to venture into other sectors like tourism. The country enjoying its rich history and the geographical features which has since time immemorial attracted many nations all over the world, it has ventured into tourism sector, which is now the largest sector in the country. This was a good idea for the nation to diversify its income resources income and to depend less on oil resources. This country is being visited from all over the world because of its strategic location, connecting all the major world continents. It attracts several tourists because of its art, beauty .traditional, suqs, sport, history and journey (AlWahaibi, 2015). A country's prosperity depends on so many factors but bounded to the leadership of that country. Since one person cannot lead forever, individuals with different personalities will ascend to power their service to the nation will be a major concern on the side of the subjects. Furthermore, the impacts of the previous leadership to the subjects and the nation at large will also be a factor in choosing the successor. A nation that has experienced success in economy always wishes to have its current leadership to continue forever or even to have a duplicate of the currents leadership to the next so that she can continue enjoying the prosperity and benefits that accrue from that good leadership. Due to these, institutions, nations and even organizations have to plan so that the mission, vision and values of that particular institution can be carried on from one generation to the next. In addition, this is done to ensure continued success in achievement of the objectives of the institution. This has been done in many ways depending on the policies of that institution or nation though future leadership of these institutions has always been planned for through succession planning (William, 1994). The succession planning is concerning distinctive and developing folks that will fill key senior and social control roles as they become offered, additionally as rising gaps in associate degree organization. All the business leaders needs long term plans to make sure that they have the right peoples in important decision-making positions. They need think ahead so that when managers leaves or moves on, there are peoples with their right knowledges and skills who keep the organization on track. (William, 1994). 3 IMPORTANCE OF SUCCESSION PLANNING IN TOURISM IN OMAN The Businesses need to simultaneously keep an eye on developing skills needs - they need to look out for skills that they may not currently have, but will need, as well as areas that are becoming less important so they can consider retraining and up skilling as appropriate. With this in mind, modern succession planning is not managerial roles; it seeks to also take a broad view right across the organization so that the right people are always in the right roles (Valeri, 2009). LITERATURE REVIEW Most of the review of literature indicate that there is a need in the sultanate to enhance and encourage succession-planning produce as very little review ware found. Over the years, the Middle East has persistently swerved from romanticized involvement and fascination, to fear and suspicion on either side of perceptual views. To the pilgrims, Travelling destinations and several traders have expressed the region's strategic value, religious signicance, and imagined mystique. Hence, the entire region has cultivated and framed the crucial cultures of hospitality and structures of prominence, as they secure cultural and religious values inherently and intrinsically pervade and intermingle in every aspect of human life. (Daher, 2007). Tourism has become increasingly complex phenomenon, creating economical, political, social, environmental, cultural, and educational dimension. (Daher, 2007). Hailing from a creative and inventive nature of enterprising family of Sur, the ancestors of Sheikh Suhail Bahwan are taking the route through the Arabian ocean, commenced trading business with a vision and mission. (Suhail Bahwan Group, 2016). The vision was to enrich everyday lives of the Omani people. The mission was to achieve what others could not; (Suhail Bahwan, 2016). The ambition was to build generate enterprising business to create the highest value for Omani society, and thus build and shape better tomorrow. (Suhail Bahwan Group, 2016). Succession planning has been defined differently scholars who have done scholarly research in it. Shellie Haroski, a human resource specialist in FGH international defines succession planning as a systematic approach to ensuring leadership continuity within an organization by recruiting and /or encouraging individual growth and development. (Valeri, 2014). The Chapple definition is succinct 'Succession planning is a process for identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company. Succession planning increases the availability of experienced and capable employees that are prepared to assume these roles as they become available.' (Valeri, 2014). According to her report, it is not about having people but rather having the right people, in the right place, at the right time. Since emergencies of leadership in any institution or an organization is inevitable, successive planning will play a very vital role to curb such issues. The Chapple definition is succinct 'Succession planning is a process for identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company. Succession planning increases the availability of experienced and capable employees that are prepared to assume these roles as they become available.' (Valeri, 2014). 4 IMPORTANCE OF SUCCESSION PLANNING IN TOURISM IN OMAN Clearly, succession planning is not just about planning for the sudden demise or incapacity of an employee but, in today's mobile workforce and with a current acute talent shortage, it should be even more of a priority. Therefore, it is baffling to discover that 59% of companies polled in the global workforce study agreed that succession planning is more challenging in today's economy and yet only 23% of companies make succession planning a high priority (Campbell, 2009). Another reason to focus on it is the changing realities of workplaces and the impending retirement of the baby boomers which is expected to have a major impact on workforce capacity. According to David Larcker and Scott Saslow who co-directed a study about CEO succession in 2014 by The Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and The Institute of Executive Development (IED), only 46% of respondents have a formal process for developing successor candidates for key executive positions, and only 25% of respondents agreed that there was an adequate pool of ready successor candidates for the CEO position at their companies (Valeri, 2014). According to Campbell (2009) on the \"modern way of doing business in Middle East\