Proposing a Frame work for Measuring Firms Preparation in Terms of Succession Planning with Combination Approach of Gray ANP and DEMATEL

One of the challenges that any organizations will encounter is vacancy specially for strategic jobs, taking this fact into consideration that organizations need to have an appropriate plan to deal with such problems. The solution can be sought in implementation of the succession planning. The purpose of this article is to present a framework to assess Gas companies preparation in different provinces (Tehran, Qom, Hamadan and Mazandaran) in terms of succession planning. In this article, after review of research literature, cognitive mapping for effective criteria on succession planning and gray ANP for ranking and measuring options have been used and DEMATEL method has been applied to determine relationship between criteria and sub criteria. In order to analyze data, excel software and super decisions software has been used. the results of this research indicate that Tehran Gas Company is ranked first and Qom, Hamadan and Mazandaran are next in the rankings respectively.