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Bita Parsa1, Parisa Parsa, Nakisa Parsa
1Department Management, Naser Khosro Institute of Higher Education, Saveh, Iran. pparsa2003@yahoo.com.
Background:
Despite the importance of social organizational factors in career advancement and promotion among academic employees, still some academic employees suffer from low career advancement and consequently low academic performance. Aim of this study was to examine the mediation effect of self-efficacy on relationship between mentoring and career advancement among academic employees in the two public universities in Iran.
Methods:
This survey research was done among 307 randomly selected academic employees to determine predictors of their career advancement. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data. The Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) methodology was applied to determine the best fitted model to predict career advancement. Analysis of data was performed using the Pearson's correlation analysis and SEM.
Results:
The results show that self-efficacy was related to mentoring and career advancement (p<0.05). The effect of mentoring on career advancement was significant (p<0.05). Self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between mentoring and career advancement (p<0.05).
Conclusion:
Academics need to be equipped with appropriate skills such as mentoring and enhance their self-efficacy to improve academic career advancement.
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