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Impact of Career and Psychosocial Mentoring Functions on the Role Efficacy of Employees
Neetu Jain
Indian Institute of Public Administration, India
Bharti Shauran
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management Studies, India
Volume 12: 2019, pp. 97-120; ABSTRACT
This study examines the impact of career and psychosocial functions of mentoring on the role efficacy of the employees in Indian organizations by taking into account the employees who were mentored and those who were not mentored. The study assesses the impact of nine functions of career and psychosocial mentoring on three major aspects of role efficacy i.e. role making, role centering and role linking of employees. For the survey, 350 questionnaires were distributed to the managerial level employees. The findings indicate that the career and psychosocial mentoring had a significant impact on all the aspects of role efficacy. The mentored employees have a higher role efficacy index value than those who were not mentored. Out of the nine sub-functions of mentoring, counseling, friendship, exposure/visibility, and role modeling were highly and positively correlated with the role efficacy. Friendship, exposure/visibility, and counseling played an important role in improving the role efficacy index of the mentees. Therefore HRD professionals in India should advise mentors to take a more friendly approach with their mentees to increase role efficacy. Increases in role efficacy will result in better organizational outcomes.
