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Recognizing its special and influential significance of Human Resource Management in Organizational Management in general and specifically in Educational Units Administration, the dissertation in hand studies the potential of mentoring in applying an efficient and effective strategy in human resources management in educational settings. In particular, the aim of this survey is to identify if the implementation of a mentoring scheme to schools could be used, among others, as an efficient managerial tool in human recourse management at the educational units. In other words, the suggested hypothesis supports that the information collected by the mentor through the mentoring relationship developed with the educators of the organization can be turned to the manager’s benefit so as to render them capable of making prompt and accurate decisions when it comes to human resource management. The research method chosen to be used is that of a structured questionnaire including questions mainly of closed-ended and Likert type. The population sample consists of a group of 328 educators of Pella prefecture of whom 56 (17%) stated that they are currently school directors. The questionnaire was distributed in printed as well as in electronic form during a 10-day period between 13th and 24th ofMay 2018. After the statistical analysis of the extracted data,conducted through the SPSS statistical processing software of IBM company, the results obtained led to the following conclusions: 1. The educators’ degree of trust towards the institution of mentoring is proved to be considerably high, which means that the information collected by the mentors through the mentoring relationship is spontaneous, honest and as a result with an increased degree of credibility. 2. The attitude of the participating in the survey school managers towards the mentoring institution was equally positive. In addition, they admit their trust to the information that could be provided to them by the mentors. 3. Attempting to put all the above mentioned conclusions together, what stands out as an overall deduction is the fact that a mentor can serve as a communication channel between the school manager and the educators. vii 4. The degree of control which the school manager has over the functions of the human resource management of their school is dependable upon the functions themselves. On the whole, taking all the aforementioned conclusionsinto consideration, the ultimate answer to the suggested hypothesis and source of this dissertation is that the mentoring institution could conditionally serveas a useful instrument for the efficient administration of specific human resource management functions