Validating the Talent Management Model of Elementary School Teachers in the Formal and Public Education System of Iran Based on the Fundamental Reform Document of Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran

The present study aimed to validate the talent management model of elementary school teachers in Iran, and determine its fitness.

The study was done by a combined exploratory method in the academic year 2019-2020. In the qualitative phase of the study, the research method was deductive content analysis, in which 5 comprehensive themes of identification, recruitment, selection, employment, development and maintenance were extracted, and then according to the comprehensive themes, 10 organizing themes: identifying elite people, motivating to recruit elites, fitting a person to a job, electing qualified people, fully utilizing the capabilities of people, providing performance conditions, increasing individual knowledge, improving job and professional skills, teachers’ excellence and well-being, and integrating people with the job of a teacher, and 40 basic themes were extracted. After confirmation of the validity and reliability, through the opinions of experts and specialists in educational sciences, in the quantitative part of the study, a descriptive-survey method was used to developing a questionnaire. The statistical population consisted of a small number of elementary school principals, deputies, and experts from education departments: experts of the elementary education, human resource promotion, administrative affairs, in education departments and the experts at the Farhangian universities. The sample size was 377 people who were selected based on the table of Cohen et al. by multi-stage random sampling method. After confirmation of the validity of the questionnaire and the obtained reliability (0.74), through Cronbach’s alpha, the modeling method of covariance-based structural equations was used to validate the research model.

All themes with high factor loading were confirmed, which indicated that the validity and reliability of the model was high.

The implementation of this model can facilitate the realization of the goals of education in finding, recruiting and maintaining elite and effective people.