Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of 
identifying the talent management components of Iranian 
elementary teachers with a qualitative-descriptive approach in 
an exploratory way and with thematic analysis technique of a 
comparative type.
Materials and methods: The research area included 41 
electronic and written scientific resources and the text of 10 
semi-structured interviews. After identifying the components 
according to the theoretical literature and interviews, first 
based on the theoretical framework in the field of talent 
management, the main categories of recruitment and 
identification, selection, employment, development and 
maintenance were considered as overarching themes, then 
according to Overarching themes 40 basic themes were 
identified and counted, the extracted basic themes were 
categorized and named under the categories of overarching 
themes in the next step, and in this way organizing themes 
were formed. The content validity of the findings was 
confirmed using the content validity index (CVR) based on the 
opinions of a number of human resource managers and 
primary education experts and a few experts in the field of 
educational sciences, a total of 15 people. The reproducibility 
of the findings using The Holstein coefficient was estimated 
to be 99/.
Findings: Finally, the findings based on the theoretical 
framework include 5 comprehensive themes (recruitment and 
identification, selection, employment, development and 
maintenance), 10 organizing themes including identifying 
elite people, creating motivation to attract elites, matching the 
person with the job, merit selection , all-round utilization of 
people, provision of implementation conditions, individual 
knowledge enhancement, promotion of job and professional 
skills, excellence and well-being of teachers, and integration 
of people with teaching profession and 40 basic themes.
Conclusion: Therefore, in order to make optimal use of 
teachers in the primary period, education and training should 
implement talent management in employing teachers in this 
period based on the indicators revealed in the current research.