Importance Performance Analysis of Components Affecting Talent Absorbing

“What is the main competitive advantage of success in business?” and “How an organization can gain a distinctive competitive advantage and survive?” have been some critical questions raised for many years among organizations and businesses. Organizations are required to identify, recruit and foster talented individuals in order to optimize their own capacity in achieving business outcomes and build a competitive advantage in the future. Thus; before everything else, existence of some components is of utmost importance in the design and implementation of talent absorbing organizations, in order to absorb top talents. The present study is of applied purpose and descriptive in nature. The statistical population is comprised of 26 top executives active in public companies located in Shiraz. After reviewing the research literature and consulting experts, The 22 important components were identified in three dimensions: "strategic", "maintenance" and "organizational". Then, the obtained components were evaluated using Importance Performance Analysis. The results indicated that the "patience" component of the strategic dimension and "personal brand improvement and promotion" and "behavioral and spiritual rewards" components from the maintenance dimension and the "mission and purpose" component of the organization dimension were in the first region of the IPA matrix, with particular attention to enhancing organizational appeal.