The basic assumptions of the talent culture in the army of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The present study was conducted with the aim of explaining the basic assumptions of the culture of talent belief in the Islamic Republic of Iran Army with a mixed approach and through an exploratory developmental-applied study. The statistical population of the research includes commanders, managers, and distinguished professors of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Headquarters and AJA academic centers with at least a master's degree and more than 20 years of service experience, who had expertise in the field of talent management and organizational culture. In the first stage, with a qualitative approach and based on the study of documents and documents as well as semi-structured interviews with experts, the basic assumptions of the talent belief culture were identified and extracted using thematic analysis method. The findings of this section lead to the basic assumptions of the giftedness culture in two general categories: moral-religious assumptions and mental assumptions. Also, in the second stage of the research, with a quantitative approach, the structural validation of the basic assumptions of the talent belief culture in the Islamic Republic of Iran Army was addressed by the method of confirmatory factor analysis in AMOS 26 software. The results of the factor analysis showed that among the components of mental assumptions, the objective orientation component with a factor load of 0.68 had the highest support, and among the components of moral-belief assumptions, the component of not having a lifelong view of power had the most support with a factor load of 0.62.