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Workplace Mentorship and Employee Engagement of Post Primary School Teachers

OKPU Tarela Oboro; ULE Prince Alamina; OBAGUO Obedient

Abstract

Well groomed employees are potential assets to any organization because they stand to demonstrate flexible work behaviour and desire that pushes the organizations to greatness thus, the study examined workplace mentorship and employee engagement of post primary school teachers in Yenagoa Bayelsa State. Adopting a survey research strategy, the study collected data from 200 teachers using simple random sampling technique with self report questionnaire. The collected data were cleansed and 169 copies found worthy for statistical analysis. These data were subjected to Pearson Product Moment Correlation via Statistical Package for Social Science and the result revealed that workplace mentorship in the form of knowledge sharing, career mentoring and role modeling positively correlate employee engagement. It was concluded that workplace mentoring gave credence to employee engagement in the form of teachers’ dedication. The study therefore, recommend that career mentoring should be practice and sustained among teachers as this would enable them to support each other in terms of career advancement which will in turn create an enabling environment to work peacefully with increased dedication.

Keywords

Career mentoringemployee dedicationemployee engagementknowledge sharingrole modeling.

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