International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 2017, Vol. 7, No. 9 ISSN: 2222-6990 372 The Effects of Talent Management on Performance Management Kamal M.Y. 1* , Lukman Z.M. 2 1* Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak, Kuala Terengganu, 21300, Malaysia mohdkamalmuhsin@gmail.com 2 Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak, Kuala Terengganu, 21300, Malaysia lukmanzm@unisza.edu.my DOI: 10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i9/3333 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i9/3333 ABSTRACT IŶ todaLJ’s Đoŵpetitiǀe eĐoŶoŵLJ, orgaŶizatioŶs Ŷeed to ĐoŶtiŶuouslLJ iŶǀest in human capital. In the role of business partner, Human Resource (HR) leaders work closely with senior management to attract, hire, develop and retain talented employees. However, in Higher Learning Institution (HLI) sector, having a talented employee is compulsory since this industry is producing and creating a future leader. Link to that statement, higher education should consist of a talented employee of administration and academic division to work together to achieve mission and vision of the organization. Therefore, Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) has taken an initiative to implement Talent Management (TM) in the university system a few years back. Due to that reason, this study is being conducted to identify the effects of TM towards Performance Management (PM) in selected public universities in Malaysia. Three public universities have been selected in this study which was Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM). Respondents were chosen based on the random sampling techniques and each university has 238 respondents. Information that has been collected will be analyzed by using IBM Statistical Package for Social Science (IBM SPSS). As a result, these three universities revealed that TM towards PMhas showed a medium level of effects. Based on the results, the management of university should take an initiative to improve their current practices of TM to ensure PM of the organization will be increased. KEYWORDS: Talent Management, Performance Management, Talent, Higher Education, INTRODUCTION TM is an integrated program that helps many organizations to grow stronger in selecting leaders. Before TM, there are unspecific procedures practiced by the HLI to select leaders. This has made each HLIs has their own version of selecting their leader which sometimes were not representing all voices of the institutions. Therefore, there is no teamwork and cooperation among employees since their voices unheard. Since that, MOHE has been taken an initiative to implement TM in local HLI since TM has proven successful in HLI in abroad. According to Thunnissen, (2016), to achieve this goal, it is important that there is talent in HLIs should exist in perpetuity and not disappear with the changing times. With the increasing number of HLIs, the demand for quality academician with expertise that is required to be more difficult (Aisyah,