organizational talent management: identify indicators and features of key employees

nowadays, it is belived that human resource is competitve advantage so it’s a kind of organizition capital, and therefore focusing the valuable role of individuals in organization and their desirable management is very important and sensitive. talent managenent repersents a paradigm shift in traditional human resource managenent to new human resource management that includes attention to organization elites. one of the initial steps in talent management, is identify key personnel (a player) and organizational talent. the purpose of this paper is to identify the major components and features of key staff and organizational talents. research has been done by qualitative method, based on theme analysis and using interview in university of tehran. using theorical sampling, 16 interview was done with managers and experts in university of tehran. the results of this research identified a series of general and specialized components of key employees.