Influence of Mentorship Programmes on Lecturers Job Productivity in Public Universities in Imo State

The study examined influence of mentorship programmes on lecturers’ job productivity in public universities in Imo State. The study was guided by three objectives, three research questions and three hypotheses were drawn. The descriptive survey design was used for this study. The population of the study consists of 1,700 academic staff in public universities in Imo State. To determine the sample size, 30% of the entire population was used which gave rise to 510. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample for the study. The instrument for data collection is a questionnaire titled “Influence of mentorship programmes on Lecturers’ Job Productivity Questionnaire. (IMPLJPPUQ)”. The reliability co-efficient obtained for each of the sections were 0.84, 0.86 and 0.82 respectively. The average reliability index was 0.84 which showed the instrument was reliable. Mean and standard deviation statistics was used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed among others that lecturers perceive the influence of formal mentorship programmes on their job productivity to be of a high extent. It was concluded that mentorship programmes, including formal, peer, and research mentorship, significantly influence lecturers' job productivity in public universities in Imo State. It was recommended among others that academic staff should be encouraged to engage in peer mentoring activities by facilitating workshops and seminars to train lecturers on effective mentoring techniques, promoting a collaborative learning environment.