تلخیص
This research was primarily designed to assess the difference in mentoring practices used by the management of universities on the basis of gender, academic qualification, professional qualification and job experience. The research has also focused on the development of a plan of action to implement mentoring programme for the universities of Islamabad. The population of the study was consisted on the 13 public sector universities of Islamabad. 5323 faculty members were serving in these 13 universities. By using convenient sampling technique 95 faculty members were selected for data collection. Data was collected through the use of a questionnaire based on 14 items. The data revealed that there was no statistically significant difference related to mentoring practices on the basis of gender, academic qualification and professional qualification. However there was significant difference in mentoring practices on the basis of job experience. The data shows that the employees having experience from 4 to 6 years were more responsive towards the mentoring practices as compared to the employees having more than 6 years of experience or having less than 4 years of experience. It was revealed that new employees were not getting assistance in developing research article, research activities, formal presentations, and locating teaching aids. It was recommended that the university management may allocate special week, days or hours specifically for the guidance of the newcomers in which they may interact with each other and with the senior members at a tea party or in an informal get together.
Quratul Ain Hina, Abdul Qayyum Chaudhary, Saira Nudrat, Mahek Arshad. (2017) Impact of Gender, Qualification and Experience on Mentoring Practices in Public Sector Universities of Islamabad, Bulletin of Education & Research, Volume 39, Issue 3.
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