The Relationship between Teacher Mentors' Personality Profile and Mentoring Activities Initiated

Purpose-Personality traits of an individual, is a stable indicator that reflects how people think, feel, and act in a structured and unstructured situation. If this perception is true that personality traits are stable, then they have a potential chance of predicting changes in social relationships. The way mentoring occurs is distinct for every individual and one predictable cause for the difference could be the personality traits of the mentor or mentee. However, there is very little research examining the impact of personality profile of the mentors on the mentoring experience. This study examined the influence of personality profiles of teacher mentors over the mentoring activities initiated among students in Business schools in Kerala, India. The research employed a cause-effect research design which employed 141 permanent teachers as respondents in the study. These teachers worked in regular management programs in 19 schools in Kerala that had a minimum of five year existence and the approval of the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). The findings of the study revealed that the personality profile of teacher mentors positively and significantly influenced the mentoring activities initiated by them.