Mentorship as an Antecedent of High Performance Workplace in Selected Water Boards in Kenya

Abstract

This study was aimed at investigating mentorship as antecedent of high performance workplace. The objective of the study was to determine the effect of mentorship on high performance workplace and it was informed by system theory where the entire organizations were observed to be interrelated and interdependent of each other. The target population was 977 with a sample size of 276 respondents. Explanatory survey design was used. First, the study utilized census for the five companies under study followed by Stratified sampling in obtaining respondents from departments and lastly simple random technique was used to select individual respondents from a sample. Structural equation modeling in conjunction with analysis of moment structures was used to analyze data. Results indicated that mentorship was not a significant predictor of high performance workplace (?=0.05, CR=0.325, p<0.001) and its results revealed that mentorship has not been conceptualized well by management and employees. The study further advances new strategies for proper mentoring procedures and methods that towards development of a successful high performance workplace.

Keywords: Mentorship, Determinant, High, Performance, Workplace