The role of talent management process in achieving organizational innovation of northiraq: an analytical study in the telecommunication companies

Talent management is one of the developments of the contemporary thoughts in administration, this came to be the point of focus by some of the organizations, because of the challenges and competitions in front of the business organizations. Nowadays, talent management has become a necessary requirement to support the organizations‟ competition and has changed very quickly to correspond to the rapid changes in the business world. this notion became more crucial especially after they realized that to gain the interests of the competitions, one should depend on the talents and skills of the individuals, and eventually it can empowers innovations. The aim of this research is explaining the role of talent management as an independent variable with all dimensions in the process of achieving an organizational innovation as the reliable variable. The researcher chooses telecommunication organizations of (Asia Cell, Korek Telecom and Zain) in the north of Iraq as the research samples and knowing how to implement the talent management, and the research focuses on the role of this type of management in achieving organizational innovations, and depending on the point of views of general managers, managers, deputy managers and the employees. In the purpose of data collection, the researcher has designed a questionnaire form to collect the data and diagrams, which have been arbitrarily distributed among the participants, the total number of the three companies is (1922) employees, thus, the researcher distributed (470) forms and the number of the submitted forms after filling them is (394) forms. In this research different statistic methods have been used, such as: (factor analysis, correlation coefficient and regression) and in the end, the resulted analyzed and figured out according to the (SPSS, Version 24) program. The results showed the existence of a positive relationship between the variables and the effect of varying proportions. Based on the results ،a number of recommendations were presented which are related to the necessity of managers and leaders following the talent management dimensions in order to achieving organizational innovation by the teaching staffs. Many conclusions and recommendations were also offered to the other companies and suggestions for the future study also inserted in this field. Such as, the concept of talent management is seen the key to the success and progress of organizations in modern times and as a form of investment, individuals are seen as the main source of innovation, development and excellence, and the department of the companies should expand the communication and collaboration between the staff members in order to share their knowledge and exchanging their ideas, opinions and information inside and outside the company to develop their abilities and talents. KEYWORDS: Talent Management, Talent Management Process, Organizational Innovation.