Managers and academic personnels' opinions on talent management

This study aims to examine the managers and academic personnel's opinions on the talent management practices which are attracting, recruiting and deploying, developing and retaining talent at Giresun University. In order to have a deeper understanding, qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews to find answers for the research questions. The sample of the study comprised of eight academic personnel and three managers. The responds to the questions were written down by the researcher, and subjected to descriptive analysis under the four themes defined in accordance with the literature view in the field. The results of the study revealed that the university uses the congress, conference and symposium to attract talented academicians. In terms of attracting potential talented students, they organize career days and provide scholarship opportunity. During the process of recruitment and selection, they give importance to scientific competence of talented academicians mostly. With regard to developing talented academicians, the university has no managerial policy. The study also showed that the managers stated they have no systematic policy to assess the satisfaction or commitment of academic personnel. From this point, both the managers and the academic personnel have a consensus that the university has no retention policy of talented academicians. The overall conclusion of the study revealed that the university does not implement talent management practices effectively due to the lack of managerial policy about it. Keywords: University, talent, talent management.