Mentoring Relationships' Facilitators and Inhibitors: A Comparative Study of Public and Private High Schools of Bahawalpur Region

Abstract

Purpose: The Purpose of this article is to find the presence of effective informal faculty to faculty mentoring relationship either in private high schools or is public high schools and also to investigate the facilitating and hindering factors for this relationship.

Design/Methodology: Simple random sampling technique is being used to choose sample. Structured questionnaire and unstructured interviews are used for surveying and findings.

Findings: Public sector educational institutions are found to have more effective and strong faculty to faculty mentoring relationships. Availability of time, trust, supportive culture and permanent jobs are facilitating factors for public sector schools. Work load, generation gap, ego problem, fair of failure and lack of trust hinders the prevalence of mentoring relationship in private sector schools.

Research limitations and implications: Time constraint and uneasy access to all faculty members are the limitations of this research. The results of this study can be used to guide ongoing research in the field of mentoring relationships.

Paper type: Empirical paper

Keywords: Mentioning relationship, facilitating factors, hindering factors