Examining the Impact of Mentoring on Personal Learning, Job Involvement and Career Satisfaction

Mentoring is introduced as a magic wand by highly matured organizations to develop the employees personally and professionally. The study investigates the influence of mentoring on personal learning, career satisfaction and job involvement. Research participants including IT professionals from Kerala (N = 390) are selected by multistage sampling method. A structured questionnaire was completed by the respondents, which measured mentoring functions, personal learning, job involvement and career satisfaction. The factors identified from exploratory factor analysis of mentoring functions are career mentoring, psychosocial mentoring and role modeling function. Path analysis was exercised to examine the hypothesis evolved from the literature. The study found that career mentoring influences personal learning and career satisfaction, role modelling influences personal learning, job involvement and career satisfaction, personal learning influences job involvement and career satisfaction. The study also revealed that job involvement results in career satisfaction and it is the strongest relationship when compared with other variables.