Eastern Politicians' Viewpoints on Talent and Issue of Developing Talented Civil Servants in Vietnam

Abstract

In every era, talent is a special human resource, directly affecting the breakthrough development of the country, locality and each organization. Therefore, competition for talent is an objective reality; leaders and managers often consider talent as an important strategy and policy to gain development advantages for each country, locality and organization. In fact, this issue can be implemented more conveniently in the private sector associated with the autonomy of each organization; but it is a difficult issue for public sector organizations due to the influence of political and legal factors. In this study, the author analyzes the views on talent of some Eastern politicians, including President Ho Chi Minh - Leader of Vietnam, and Chairman Mao Zedong - Leader of China. Based on the analysis of the content of Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong's views on talent, the author builds a theoretical framework for research on the development of talented civil servants, including a 3-scale model in the direction of assessing the correlation of the independent scales/variables "Civil servants’ outstanding capacity" (CSO), "Policy for civil servants’ capacity development" (PCS) and the dependent scale/variable "Developing talented civil servants" (DCS). The author conducts a survey of 510 leaders of 170 local government agencies at the commune level representing three regions of Vietnam, including Lang Son province (North), Nghe An province (Central), Tay Ninh province (South). From the analyzed survey results, the author draws research conclusions and discusses policy issues to develop talented civil servants in Vietnam in the trend of social change with the development of digital technology and digital society today.