Implementation of talent management model on Central and East Java province government

This article aims at exploring to what extent the readiness of the HRM agencies at Central and East Java Province in implementing the current talent management policy. This research uses exploitative-qualitative methods through interviews with regional staffing agencies senior officials to discuss policy understanding, institutional capacity, and regional head support in implementing talent management. The results showed that stakeholders' knowledge of talent management policy is sufficient with the implementation plan in line with the established policy. Furthermore, the talent management implementation is more dominant using a strategic-system method than micro-individualistic at the stage of selecting employees, with talent criteria consisting of potential, performance, competence, ethics-integrity, and the provision of competency development programs adjusted to the needs of talents. This research also showed that with the institutional capacity of different human resources managers in both provinces, Central Java Province is relatively more ready to implement talent management than East Java Province. However, the most formidable challenge of the implementation in both regions is to get the support of regional heads so that the process of implementing talent management can run effectively without transactional political intervention.