Abstract: This study investigates strategic talent management practices in higher institutions with particular attention on talent pools, retention, deployment and development. The study characterizes talent management with regards to the higher institutions and afterward investigates its association with current everyday management practices. The study scrutinizes the present circumstance for deficient in an alliance between the organisational strategy of higher institutions and how scholarly talent is pooled, retained, developed and compensated. It is contended that talent management can give a calculated structure to upgrade performance over an extended period by blending a higher institution’s strategy with everyday management frameworks.