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Background & Purpose: One of the concerns of knowledge-based organizations after the retirement of their skilled employees is to ensure that their knowledge is retained by the organization. This issue is especially important for retired university faculty members who have extensive experience and a lot of explicit and implicit knowledge. In this regard, one of the key questions is how to take advantage of precious knowledge and literacy of these intellectuals, which has been created with great difficulty during their years of activity? The purpose of the current research is to qualitatively examine the lived experience of retired faculty members during their working years. Methodology: Using Husserl's descriptive phenomenology, 17 retired faculty members of Isfahan universities were chosen as participants using purposive sampling. The total number of participants was determined through theoretical saturation. In-depth interviews were used in order to collect information about the experiences of the participants. The interviews were analyzed using Colaizzi's method. Findings: The results identified five main themes including adherence to university norms and red lines, personal, work and life balance, shifting focus from quantity to quality, preparing for life after retirement, and developing communication skills. Besides, the results identified 16 subthemes. Conclusion: From a theoretical point of view, the results of this study contribute to the development of concepts on knowledge management and especially knowledge sharing among retired faculty members. Practically, the results obtained can be used at the individual level (i.e., for younger faculty members), at the university level (i.e., for university administrators), and at the national level (i.e., for major policy making at Ministry of Science). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study aimed to: Identify the quality of life of retired elderly people and its dimensions (emotional happiness, financial status, health status, personal growth, selfdetermination, social relations, social integration, and human and legal rights) each separately. Testing the significance of differences regarding the quality of life of retired elderly and its dimensions (emotional happiness, financial condition, health status, personal growth, selfdetermination, social relations, social integration, human and legal rights) each separately according to the gender variable. Determine the factors related to the degree of quality of life of retired elderly people and their dimensions separately, and the degree of the contribution of each factor affecting significantly. The study was conducted based on the methodology of the social survey in Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, where three districts were chosen using the simple random sampling method, and the choice was: Faqous District, Abu Hammad District, and Minya Al-Qamh District to represent the north, middle and south of the governorate, respectively. A village was selected from each district using a simple random sampling method, and the choice was the village of Al-Birum (Faqous District), Al-Abassa village (Abu Hammad District), and Al-Sadiyin village (Minya Al-Qamh District). The sample size was 177 respondents. Data were collected by a questionnaire in a personal interview from the beginning of October until the end of December 2019, and the data were analyzed and presented using frequencies and percentages, the arithmetic mean, the stability coefficient of Alpha Cronbach, “T” test for two independent samples The simple correlation coefficient of Pearson, and Step Wise Multiple Regression. The study reached several results: The quality of life for less than half the respondents (48%) was low. There were significant differences at a significant level of 0.01 with regard to the quality of life according to the gender variable, in favor of male with higher arithmetic mean, which amounted to 113.29. There were two independent variables that together contributed significantly to explaining the total variance in the degree of total quality of life, where the ratio was about 56.9%, and the relative contribution rate for each variable can be determined as follows: The monthly pension is 54.6%, and the number of years of education is 2.3%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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