Benue State University, Makurdi

MENTORING IN THE WORK PLACE: PROSPECT AND CHALLENGES IN A CHANGING WORLD

Samuel Laraba Baba, Aminu Abdullahi Abbas

Abstract

Mentoring is one among the basic part of organisational continuity and success. An organisation that do not prioritise this factor tend to put its future in jeopardy. Personnel development depend on it mostly.Different scholars have given different opinions on what they opinedto what mentoring is. Redmond (2009)view it as a professional bond between an elderly friend, tutor or a counsellor to a growing person in an organisation. Another viewed it to be serving as a guide, counsellor and teacher for another person usually in academics or occupational capacity. As important as mentoring is, the actors allowed the effect of extraneous variable to set in and mask the wrong/unacceptable behaviour as mentoring. With the advent of time, the mentors have become stingy with knowledge, and those that are ready to mentor usually end up with unserious mentees. More so, pride, superiority perception, and egoism has taken the lead were the upcoming colleagues are not ready to learn and the experienced are forcing or selfishly commanding for respect. Mentoring is a process that softly teaches humility to both parties for effective learning and development. Few of these menace were looked into and intended solution were outlined.

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