Succession planning is the organization's behavior that ensures the organization is constantly provided with efficient management. Succession difficulties are often related to relationship problems, such as top management conflict and firm’s problems, rather than leadership issues. Despite there being an urgent need for succession planning, it has not been fully embraced especially by governmental organizations. The main objective of this paper is provide a survey of influence of the organization structure on the implementation of succession planning in civil registration departments in Kenya. The target population for the study was civil registration employees in the Eastern Region who number 212 in total. A sample size of 139 was used, which represent over 50% of the population. Systematic sampling technique was used to take the sample. A closed ended survey questionnaire was administered to collect primary data. The R estimate is 0.801 which was sufficient and conclusive. The results showed that determinants of implementation affects succession planning in civil registration departments, and it should be the concern of all departments or all organizations. The study therefore concluded that succession planning is an important corporate strategy which every company should embrace in order to realize business success.