Designing a talent management model for presidents of Islamic Azad University of Tehran province

Higher education in today's world is one of the specialized fields whose management requires the employment of managers who have the abilities and competencies to manage this organization. In this regard, talent management is considered due to its ability to create and maintain a competitive advantage. The purpose of the current research is to design a model of talent management for presidents of Islamic Azad University in Tehran province. The current research is qualitative and data-based in terms of practical purpose, in terms of exploratory nature, in terms of the method of data collection and analysis. The studied community includes experts in the field of talent management in higher education, which was conducted in the form of purposeful sampling with the snowball strategy and continued until theoretical saturation. The data collection tool is a semi-structured interview, the validity of which was confirmed by the triangulation method. Data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method in MAXQDA 2020 software. The results of the research showed that the dimensions of talent management for presidents of Islamic Azad University include "employee development, motivation, retention and ensuring recruitment". Next, the components and subscales of each were identified and classified.