“…Most Universities see the need for regular and timely mentoring and workplace learning to enhance quality teaching and research performance to promote sustainability and competitive advantage (Darwin, 2000). Meanwhile, Whelan and Carcary (2011) opined that mentoring facilitate career progression, psychological support and personal development which invariably transient faculty productive engagement in teaching, innovation and research, satisfaction and retention (Emelo, 2009;Lo and Ramayah, 2011;Weinberg and Lankau, 2011). Mentor-mentee relationship is likely to reduce absenteeism (Judge and Kammeyer-Mueller, 2011), promote effective utilisation of talented and competent faculty (Iles, Preece and Chuai 2010;Francis, 2009) and improve team work, academic linkages and collaboration (Bamford, 2011;Bozeman and Feeney, 2007;Holland, 2009).…”