Revolutionizing School HR Strategies and Practices to Reflect Talent Centered Education Leadership

Grounded in the theories of inclusive talent management (TM) and social-exchange, this conceptual paper draws on the education working conditions and broader TM scholarship to promote Talent Centered Education Leadership, an education human resource management (HRM) approach that emphasizes an "employee centered" philosophy to enhance teachers' experience and engagement. Schools will benefit by improving TM and school performance outcomes, reconciling the "corporate reformer" perspective, emphasizing performance accountability, and the teacher professionalism perspective, emphasizing teacher respect. This article redefines school HRM from a standardized-product focus to one that emphasizes employee value and care, an empirically supported humanistic framework compatible with education.