Identification and prioritization of talent development mechanisms

There is a great deal of attention to talent management in competitive and highly competitive organizations. Talent development is an important component of talent management. The current research seeks to identify and prioritize talent development mechanisms. This research is descriptive and survey in terms of practical purpose and data collection method. The statistical population of the research is university and industry experts in the field of talent management. Non-probability and judgmental sampling was completed using the snowball method with a total of 14 questionnaires. The data collection tool was library and field studies, which were used using the opinions of experts from two researcher-made questionnaires.The first questionnaire is of the AHP pairwise comparison type, in order to analyze the data, the importance coefficient and the priority of the effective criteria on talent development mechanisms from the AHP hierarchical analysis method with Expert Choice software, and the second questionnaire from the TOPSIS decision matrix to determine the priority of each of the mechanisms. Talent development was used. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts, and the reliability was confirmed by the inconsistency rate of 0.03, which was less than 0.1 according to the standard of the AHP method. The result shows that the highest power transfer criterion (knowledge, attitude, skill, behavior) was the least important among experts in terms of criteria and cost reduction criterion. The coaching, mentoring and project participation mechanisms were ranked first to third among other mechanism, as well as presentation-based approach last rank among the mechanisms of talent development.