Mentoring and Organizational Resilience. A Study of Manufacturing Companies in Rivers State

The study examined the effect of Mentoring on Organizational Resilience in the Nigerian manufacturing industry.A total of 140 employees were randomly drawn from employees of the 31 manufacturing companies in Port Harcourt.The instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and oral interview.A total of 93 copies of the questionnaire were retrieved and analyzed.Spearman's Rank Correlation Statistical tool was used to test the hypotheses.The findings revealed that Mentoring is significantly related to Organizational Resilience.Based on these findings we concluded that Mentoring has significant influence on Organizational Resilience.The study therefore recommends that organizations should use its mentoring programmes as a knowledge retention measure that will strategically channel efforts towards organizational success.In other words mentoring should be used as a tool to enhance organizational resilience.