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Abstract
The prominent and outstanding role of faculty members is not hidden from anyone in the education of students, the dynamism and prosperity of the university, and development and excellence of society. To playing these roles, they require to have enough work engagement. In this qualitative-applied research, university faculty members’ work engagement is considered, posing the question: what are the characteristics of engaged faculty members of public universities in Iran? The participants were 26 faculty members of public Universities in Tehran, who were selected by snowball sampling method and were interviewed with semi-structured questions until theoretical saturation was obtained. The participants’ responses were coded after each interview, and the concepts and themes were extracted from them using the thematic analysis method. Finally, the characteristics of engaged faculty members were categorized into 4 main themes: try to other flourishing, interest in self-flourishing, Commitment to professional ethics and engaged personality. Furthermore,16 sub-themes were identified and discussed.
New organizations expect their employees to be creative and dynamic, take the initiative, work collaboratively, try to develop their job skills, and be committed to high performance standards. Therefore, modern organizations need a lot of engaged staff for success. Universities and centers of higher education play an important role in the development and excellence of human societies. One of the factors that help to improve the current status of universities is enjoying faculty members with enough work engagement. Due to the effect of faculty members’ work engagement on their performance qualitatively and quantitatively, it seems that in order to improve the status of universities, faculty members with work engagement, as major actors in the university should be recruited. Due to the reliance of achieving higher education goals and comprehensive development of the country on the existence of faculty members who are engaged in teaching, researching, advising and leading students, the present study seeks to answer the question: what are the characteristics of engaged faculty members of public universities in Iran? Thus, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying the characteristics of engaged faculty members, as one of the most important components of the country's higher education system. It is hoped this study can assist relevant authorities in identifying the characteristics of engaged faculty members, modifying performance evaluation criteria and promoting faculty members.
Case study
In this research, faculty members of public universities in Iran constitute the case study.
Due to the nature of the subject, the research is conducted in a qualitative manner and is based on the interpretation philosophy. Data collection is conducted through interview with 26 faculty members from public universities in Tehran. data collection was conducted through snowball sampling. The method of data analysis is thematic analysis.
Discussion and After analyzing the data, the characteristics of engaged faculty members were categorized into 4 main themes: try to other flourishing, interest in self-flourishing, commitment to professional ethics and engaged personality. Furthermore, 16 sub-themes were identified and discussed.
Although the main question of our research was about the characteristics of engaged faculty members, the characteristics expressed by the interviewees were mostly about the faculty members’ engagement for teaching and rather than about the engagement for researching. The characteristics identified with most to least frequency were about: the engagement for teaching, the engagement for communicating with the community, and the engagement for researching; it indicates the importance of spending time and energy of the teacher in educating students.

Despite the diverse research in the field of teaching quality and the study of factors associated with it, there is still evidence of educational inadequacies caused by Human resources associated with it. In order to manage the performance and increase the efficiency of teachers in teaching quality, the design of a progressive research has been tried to examine the Features and effective skills in teaching from the perspective of the faculty members. With a randomized survey, 242 Faculty members in two universities using questionnaires, factors related to the quality of teaching were studied, the results of path analysis with the help of structural equation modeling showed that faculty members evaluated their own Features and skills. On the basis of their assessment, we found that the demography Features (0,14), personality traits (0,18), occupational (0,17) professional skills (0,13), teaching (0,22), and communication (0,16), and in total, these attributes and skills explained 50% of the variance in teaching quality, which the Teaching skills with path coefficient (0,22) as the most important factor predicting the university professors’ quality of teaching was identified. The Features of the faculty members in the educational process based on the results the critical conclusion, their level and importance in providing quality Teaching was discussed.

Higher education has been a key pillar of every country's development with its purpose being to develop the scientific, technological, cultural, economic, political, and social dimensions of society. It is obvious that reaching this purpose requires engaged faculty members. Whenever they have high engagement, they can create or increase the engagement in their students as well. In this study, faculty members’ engagement for teaching, researching, and social activities has been considered giving rise to this question: what are the factors affecting work engagement decline of faculty members of public universities in Iran? Due to the nature of the study, qualitative research was conducted. Participants were 22 faculty members of public universities of Tehran who were selected by the purposive sampling method and were interviewed in an in-depth and semi-structured manner until theoretical saturation was reached. Then, using thematic analysis the text of each interview was coded regularly and the themes and concepts were identified and categorized into 3 main themes, 8 sub-themes and 18 conceptual categories and discussed. According to the findings, structural barriers, content barriers, cultural barriers, negative tendencies, negative dynamics, barriers related to students, community, colleagues, and dean reduce the work engagement of faculty members of public university in Iran. Exploring the declining factors of faculty members’ work engagement, this research enjoys specific novelty and offers suggestions for resolving or controlling them.

One of the problems that now threat organizations and is one of the challenges of management is organizational cynicism.

In this paper, the causes of organizational cynicism among faculty members and their implications have been identified.

After reviewing the literature and interviews with 15 experts, using AHP technique to identify and rank the most important reason was the organizational cynicism and its consequences.

Of the 19 factors were identified: perception of organizational policy , social cynicism, psychological cynicism, breach of contract , reducing organizational justice , reducing organizational support , job security and style of leadership. 8 also factor as to the consequences of the spread of this phenomenon at the University of 4 were identified by their important factor of experts respectively: obsessing over organizational change , reducing organizational commitment , reducing the incidence of organizational citizenship behaviors and reduction of job satisfaction.

The findings suggest that universities consider the factors in the creation of organizational cynicism and control of the spread of this phenomenon avoid the consequences

The purpose of this article is to introduce and discuss the main theories of retirement as a pretext to bring the issue of retirement, in general, and academic retirees, in particular, to the attention of scholars and managers. Thus, a research was conducted in a university setting to determine the main activities that the academic retirees are involved in after retirement and their attitudes toward retirement life. A questionnaire was designed and distributed among the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad academic staff who had retired during 1999-2008 period. The analysis of collected data revealed that most retired academics continue their involvement in the academic work along with nonacademic activities. They are particularly pleased with the opportunity to plan their time and activities as the result of greater independence in retirement. However, the loss of contact with students and colleagues is what dissatisfied them the most after their retirement. They also expect the university administrators and particularly the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to develop a blue print for more effective use of the academic retirees’ knowledge and skills.