Introducing a Talent Management Model based on Grounded theory (Case Study: Telecom Operator)

Changing economic and technological paradigms, causes very significant issues in different industries, especially technology-laden ones, like telecom. One of the most important issues is talent management; acquisition, development and retention of talents. This is because after McKinsey’s talent war notion, many companies, adopt focused efforts and investment in this part of human resource management of their companies. Academic researchers also entered the field and tried to explore different aspect of talent management. However, as Tarique and Schuler (2010) mentioned, there is not enough qualitative research in the field and most of the researches are based on North-America culture. On the other hand, most of the introduced models are manifesting an ideal model of talent management and did not notice the current condition of the phenomenon in the organizations. Based on this issues, we tried to develop a talent management model based on grounded theory for a telecom operator .