Entrepreneurship Training Needs Assessment for Retirees(Retirees Association of Military of Islamic Republic of Iran Case)

In terms of having knowledge and experience that gained over 30 years of experience, retirees can play significant role in entrepreneurship and employment in their field of expertise.In addition to the value and importance of the mentioned subject, for a retired person ,being accepted in the family, group ,and social communications and acceptance in the community and feeling self-esteem among the people, is sometimes rather more effective than an increase in salary and bonus material for spiritual and psychological satisfaction.Aiming to the educational need assessment of retirees, this study has been conducted via distributing 140 questionnaires among retirees of “AJA Retirement Center “. The Cronbach's alpha method was used in order to estimate the reliability of this study That was calculated as 0.95. In this study, factor analysis was used applying Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) , and also Friedman test was conducted in order to prioritize indicators.The results indicates that the indexes “having knowledge of marketing and sale ", “the ability to identify and define the future needs of the market and the industry”,"the ability to organize technological resources", "having Knowledge of accounting and finance", "having knowledge of business rules", "the ability to apply various techniques to exploit market opportunities." , and "having ambiguity tolerance ", has the highest priority of need assessment among other indexes . On the other hand , indicators "to encourage and reward employees, '' having continued interest and desire to learn" , "ability to listen effectively" ,and "ability to supervise, monitor and control employees" has the lowest priority among the indicators of assessment from the respondents point of view.