Title: Talent quotient for Indian management teachers

Authors: Rupali Singh; Tripti Singh

Addresses: School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad-211004, India ' School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad-211004, India

Abstract: The objective of the paper is to develop and validate a measurement scale for defining talent for management teachers in India in terms of a quotient. Structured questionnaire was prepared for the teachers teaching in Indian management colleges/management department/business schools having more than ten years of existence. A pretesting is carried out with 15 experts of the high academic experience to identify parameters to be used in a pool of questions and then confirmatory factor analysis technique has been adopted to draw scale composite reliability and average variance extracted and later discriminate validity is checked thorough factor inter-correlation matrix. A six-attribute scale is developed and validated which will be utilised in determining teacher's talent quotient in Indian business schools.

Keywords: talent management; management teachers; talent quotient; scale development; management institutes; business schools; management colleges; management departments; higher education; management education.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2015.072496

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2015 Vol.9 No.6, pp.750 - 766

Received: 01 Feb 2014
Accepted: 27 Feb 2014
Published online: 15 Oct 2015 *

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