Identifying the Effective Factors of Talent Management (Case Study: Farhangian University in the South of Country)

Talent management is one of the effective strategies to improve the performance of organizations and accordingly, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the effective factors of talent management in Farhangian University in the south of country.

This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The community of the qualitative part was experts included talent faculty members in the field of educational management and senior managers of Farhangian University in the south of the country, which according to the theoretical saturation principle number of 13 people of them were selected by purposive sampling method. The community of the quantitative part was faculty members and staff of Farhangian University in the south of country with number of 399 people, which according to Krejcie and Morgan table number of 196 people of them were selected by stratified random sampling method considering the ratio of the province of work. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires and analyzed by methods of coding in MAXQDA software and factor analysis in SPSS and PLS software.

Findings showed that the effective factors of talent management in Farhangian University had 51 open codes in three axial codes of internal conditions (with 16 open codes), structural conditions (with 17 open codes) and organizational processes (with 18 open codes). Other findings showed that the factor load of all open codes or indicators was higher than 0.50 and for the effective factors of talent management in Farhangian University were identified three factors of internal conditions, structural conditions and organizational processes, which their validity and reliability was suitable and these three factors were able to explain 58% of the total variance. Other findings showed that the effective factors of talent management in Farhangian University had a significant effect on all three factors of internal conditions, structural conditions and organizational processes (P<0.05).

According to the identification of three factors of internal conditions, structural conditions and organizational processes for effective factors of talent management in Farhangian University and their approval in a quantitative part, to desired talent management in the university can be action through identified indicators according to three factors of internal conditions, structural conditions and organizational processes and provided the basis for improving the performance of higher education organizations, especially Farhangian University.