Talent management: The great challenge of leading organizations

Today is called as the age of increasing competition among the organizations against the limited resources. Nowadays, organizations reached higher consciousness that talented human resources are valuable resources and if they can be managed strategically, they will be associated with maximum return on investment. It is obvious that getting benefits from talented human resources requires proper management and this is one of the major challenges for organizations. Talent management as a system of identification, recruitment, training, promotion, and retention of talented people has been proposed with the aim of optimizing the organization and to achieve business results. In other words, talentmanagement refers to the systematic and dynamic process that by which human resources are being identified to fill key jobs and positions in the future and they get ready through a wide variety of educational and training programs for these occupations. With respect to the use of talent management at all levels of the organizations to release the true potential of existing human resources and orient and direct their talents to achieve the expected outcomes, this study aims to review the literature related to the concept of talent management and related topics to establish gaps for further studies on the topic