Abstract
The research was primarily designed to study the impact of mentoring services (IV) on the socialization of the teachers (DV) in the universities of Punjab, Pakistan. Further the research was aimed at the comparison of mentoring services and socialization of the teachers on the basis of sector, gender, age, experience and professional qualification. Population of the study was based on the all the teacher serving in the universities of Punjab. The data available in Higher Education Commission shows that there were 38 universities located in Punjab. Among which 21 were from public sector and 17 were from private sector. 6829 faculty members were serving in public and 2568 faculty members were serving in the private sector. Proportionate stratified sampling technique was used to draw the sample. 479 faculty members contributed in the process of data collection. The data was collected with the help of two sets of questionnaires to address the independent (Mentoring) and dependant variable (Socialization). The demographic section was also added as an additional part of the questionnaire. The data collected was analyzed with the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The data revealed that mentoring programmes were not having any significant impact on the socialization of the teachers. However there was no statistically significant difference found in mentoring services for teachers on the basis of sector, gender, age, experience and professional qualification. Similar was the case with socialization level and there was also no statistical difference on the basis of sector, gender, age, experience. However on the basis of professional qualification a significant difference was found in the socialization level of the teachers. The data shows that the teacher having in-service teacher trainings were having better socialization in comparison to the other faculty members. Thus it was recommended that there may be a plan of action for the development of such an environment in which the employee may interact in an informal way to develop a friendly atmosphere to regulate socialization process.