confidentiality Transparency and Trade-offs
As with some other issues in diverse succession planning, there are differing views on transparency. The Hewitt study noted earlier found that 68% of the top companies in leadership development informed employees of their status as high potentials while only approximately 53% in the comparison group of companies provided such information(Salob& Greenslade, 2005). With transparency, the career objectives of the candidate may be con sidered in developmental planning. On the other hand, com plete transparency may interfere with teamwork and demotivate those not included on the list(Conger& Fulmer, 2003: Yeung, 1997). Informing employees of their readiness for promotion is a related issue. We saw varying levels of transpar ency. Whereas some of our interviewees stressed the impor tance of transparency and informing employees of their readiness in succession, other interviewees advocated the use of partial transparency, where individuals are told that they are making a contribution but are not explicitly told that they high potentials to avoid raising expectations