The Impacts of informal mentoring on the effectiveness of protégé in Academic sector

The purposeof this paper is to identify the protégé effectiveness through informal mentoring factors of peer mentoring, altruism and organizational culture from undergraduate students. As previous researches was about the formal and informal mentoring and its effectiveness on mentees, there were less research about informal mentoring and its impacts on the student'scareer development. However, it has been proven that informal mentoring is more effective than formal mentoring so this study showed which factors highly influence in informal mentoring. This paper is based on quantitative research and data collected by close-ended questionnaires based on five point likert-scales from the undergraduate students of BBA and MBA through simple random technique, and software which have used in study was SPSS. This study is informal mentoring impacts on protégé career and effectiveness. however, recent researches was on B.com students with small sample size, so this research filled this gap and studied in the context of private University Karachi, Pakistan. Latter it can be effective in other educational sector as well, because informal mentoring is a process which does not need a formal structure to follow. This study haschosen three factors and tested its direct impacts on protégé effectiveness which showed the positive relations between them but for further, researches could be tested with relations or faculty roles in educational sector and on the novice employees in the organization as well, there are many other attributes like attachment styles, abilities and willingness could be explored in Asian countries.