ABSTRACT
Many published research papers show talent management has highly significant positive correlation with the organization performance. The talent management complexity in-creased over the last decade, especially in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) era. Many experts agree that IR 4.0 may blur the line between people and technology, where technologies may replace people’s role in the organization. As talents have an important role in securing organization performance, therefore, talent management should come to the attention of the top management, especially the chief executive officer (CEO). This paper presents the conceptual studies, which focus on the CEO roles in talent management to develop new leaders in the IR 4.0 era. The paper is qualitative research based on literatures review of scientific articles and reports of reputable organizations. This paper finds that the proposition states that there is a strong correlation between the role of the CEO and talent management, which then supports the organization performances.
