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The Nexus between Mentoring Dimensions and Organizational Commitment of Academic Staff in Selected Private Universities in South-West Nigeria By Prof Olalekan Asikhia

Effective mentorship aids employee retention by enhancing organisational commitment. Using the responses of 315 academic staff and in-depth interviews of professors and junior lecturers of six selected private universities in South-West Nigeria, this study explored mentoring as an emerging form of leadership development programs and its concomitant relationship with employee outcomes with a view to making veritable recommendations for its adoption to build skills and human capacity in Nigerian universities. Despite the various forms of mentoring, it focused on workplace/organisational mentoring. The two main types of mentoring discussed were formal and informal mentoring. Correlation analysis was used to analyse the hypothesis which was supported. Findings revealed that mentoring dimensions had a significant weak positive relationship with employee commitment (r=0.121, 0.150, 0.159, 0.188, 0.203, p<0.05, N=315). The qualitative findings indicated that mentoring to a large extent positively affects employees’ organisational commitment.

  • Valerie A. Onyia, Grace O. Makinde, Olive U. Egbuta
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Olalekan Asikhia

Olalekan Asikhia is the DVC, Research, Innovation and Strategy at Caleb University, Lagos State. He was the past Director of Center for Financial Studies of Chartered Institute of Bankers, and Research Professor at School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, and won a grant of Poverty/SMEs studies worth R700,000 oer year for 2 years, making a total of R1.4 million. He was also a past Head of the department and acting dean. He had supervised and graduated over ninety-two (92) doctoral candidates and twenty-four (24) master degree candidates. He has over one hundred and thirty-three (133) publications. Olalekan Asikhia is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Marketing. He is a member of the economics and statistics committee of Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He is married to Busayo Asikhia and blessed with two children.

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