The Effect Of Mentoring On Military Personnel Retention: The Case Of Major General Haylom Araya Military academy June, 2019
dc.contributor.advisor | Bekalu, Wubshet (PhD) | |
dc.contributor.author | Mohammed, Abdulkader | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-29T08:08:29Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T13:52:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-29T08:08:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T13:52:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | Mentoring is a natural one-on-one, mutual, committed relationship formed between a mentor and mentee planned to promote personal development beyond any particular institutional goals. Today organizations face a challenge concerning the mentoring and retention of key workers. And organizations increase retention rates and decrease the related costs of high turnover with the aid of mentoring. Retain of skilful workers is a vital as a result, mentoring and retention has become an issue of importance for any organization. This research study examined the effect of mentoring on military personnel retention in the case of major general HAYELOM ARAYA military academy. Methodologically, the researcher used mixed research approach, which is both quantitative and qualitative and the design was descriptive and explanatory type of research, where the population of the study is the protégé cadets of military academy. The sampling method is specifically stratified random sampling. The material used for this investigation was sourced from both primary and secondary data such as text books, management journals and internet. A well-structured close ended and interview questionnaire was the main tool for data gathering. The researcher used both descriptive and inferential statistics. The review of literature suggests that conceptualization of mentoring is required for personnel retention in organizations. The result of person correlation revealed that sub function of mentoring has positive and significant relationship with personnel retention in the military academy. Furthermore, the results of regression analysis indicated that coaching, sponsorship, exposure, protection, challenging, friendship, counselling, and acceptance, role-modelling has positive and significant effect on personnel retention in the studied military academy. And also the result indicated that the practice of mentoring is highly low in the selected military academy. Findings of this study shows that providing mentoring for military personnel is positively and significantly related to higher psychological readiness, career development, and personnel retention. The Military academy is better to give emphasis for mentoring practice to enhance the retention of military personnel. For effective personnel retention, it was recommended that mentoring should be absolutely deliberated and not forced on the participants ‘‘the mentors and the mentees’’ and privacy should be indispensable in this relationship | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/19670 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
dc.subject | military academy | en_US |
dc.subject | cadet | en_US |
dc.subject | mentoring | en_US |
dc.title | The Effect Of Mentoring On Military Personnel Retention: The Case Of Major General Haylom Araya Military academy June, 2019 | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |