Mentoring Relationship and its Impact on Job Satisfaction

Research on mentoring in India is still in its nascent stage. Not many studies are conducted on the efficacy or need for this system in the Indian context. Organizations which are using one form or other of mentoring find it increasingly difficult to get the process to move beyond weekly or monthly one-on-one meeting between the protege and their respective mentor. Based on the history of mentoring relationships and its associated benefits, the primary objective of this paper was to study the impact of mentoring on job satisfaction of bank employees in India. The impact of mentoring was studied after accounting for the demographic variables and job burnout. Banks are the backbone of our country and they need to be operating at an optimum level. Despite the increase in mentorship research and practice worldwide, in the Indian context, little data is available to understand and analyse the direct impact of mentoring on Job satisfaction of bank employees. The present study attempts to bridge this research gap and examines the impact of mentoring on job satisfaction of bank employees after accounting for the demographic variables (age, gender and sector of bank) and job Burnout components. The primary data for this research study was collected from the three hundred and ninety-three Indian bank employees across different sectors using questionnaires and informal discussions. The sample respondents for the study were identified using convenience sampling followed by snowball sampling technique.