Identifying the Components of Teachers Talent Management for Elementary Schools in Iran

The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the talent management components of Iranian elementary teachers with a qualitative-descriptive approach in an exploratory way and with thematic analysis technique of a comparative type.

The research area included 41 electronic and written scientific resources and the text of 10 semi-structured interviews. After identifying the components according to the theoretical literature and interviews, first based on the theoretical framework in the field of talent management, the main categories of recruitment and identification, selection, employment, development and maintenance were considered as overarching themes, then according to Overarching themes 40 basic themes were identified and counted, the extracted basic themes were categorized and named under the categories of overarching themes in the next step, and in this way organizing themes were formed. The content validity of the findings was confirmed using the content validity index (CVR) based on the opinions of a number of human resource managers and primary education experts and a few experts in the field of educational sciences, a total of 15 people. The reproducibility of the findings using The Holstein coefficient was estimated to be 99/.

Finally, the findings based on the theoretical framework include 5 comprehensive themes (recruitment and identification, selection, employment, development and maintenance), 10 organizing themes including identifying elite people, creating motivation to attract elites, matching the person with the job, merit selection , all-round utilization of people, provision of implementation conditions, individual knowledge enhancement, promotion of job and professional skills, excellence and well-being of teachers, and integration of people with teaching profession and 40 basic themes.

Therefore, in order to make optimal use of teachers in the primary period, education and training should implement talent management in employing teachers in this period based on the indicators revealed in the current research.