Mentoring Research: A Review and Dynamic Process Model

Wanberg, Connie R.; Welsh, Elizabeth T.; Hezlett, Sarah A.

doi:10.1016/s0742-7301(03)22002-8

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“…Because mentoring relationships are oriented toward helping the protégé, most research examines mentoring from the perspective of the protégé and does so at the individual level of analysis (see Allen, Eby, Poteet, Lentz, & Lima, 2004;DuBois, Holloway, Valentine, & Cooper, 2002;Johnson, 2007). Both naturally occurring (informal) and third-party assigned (formal) mentoring relationships have been investigated, although formal mentoring is studied more often in youth mentoring (Spencer, 2007) whereas workplace mentoring has historically focused more on informal mentoring (Wanberg, Welsh, & Hezlett, 2003). Finally, as a power-and resource-based relationship (Ragins & Sundstrom, 1990), considerable attention has been placed on how mentoring can be utilized to help those with less social power and with fewer resources (e.g., women, racial minorities, at-risk youth) overcome obstacles and achieve success.…”

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Moving toward interdisciplinary dialogue in mentoring scholarship: An introduction to the Special Issue

Eby

Allen

2008

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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The study of mentoring spans a wide range of disciplines including psychology, organizational behavior, education, and social work, among others. However, until recently there has been little interdisciplinary dialogue among mentoring scholars. In this Special Issue we attempt to lay the groundwork for interdisciplinary research on mentoring by examining this phenomenon through the lens of youth mentoring, academic mentoring, and workplace mentoring. In this introduction we outline the aims of this Special Issue, provide a common definition of mentoring to guide the reader through the articles that follow, summarize the knowledge gained from the included articles, and offer insight into what we believe are important next steps for developing a multidisciplinary perspective on mentoring.Mentoring relationships are ubiquitous; they exist between youth and unrelated adults, peers, students and faculty, and organizational members. These relationships take many forms. Some mentoring relationships develop spontaneously between two individuals whereas others originate in formal mentoring programs in community settings, on college campuses, or within organizations (Allen & Eby, 2007b). Mentoring research and practice has developed through the work of a multidisciplinary community of scholars, each focusing on a specific population or mentoring target. Researchers with disciplinary backgrounds in community and/or developmental psychology, sociology, and social work tend to study youth mentoring relationships. Researchers with disciplinary roots in education and counseling psychology investigate mentoring relationships within academic settings. Organizational psychologists and management researchers tend to focus on workplace mentoring. Thus, within the mentoring literature, the population of focus (e.g., youth, college student, employee) is intertwined with disciplinary perspective. This is shown in Figure 1, which also illustrates that there is little disciplinary overlap in the study of different target populations. Mentoring research has developed firm foundations within disciplines and target populations. The aim of the Special Issue is to facilitate a shift from a multidisciplinary approach, where two or more disciplines examine the same problem but with limited integration, to an interdisciplinary perspective characterized by assimilation and borrowing of ideas, concepts and methods across disciplines.The aim of this Special Issue is to introduce readers to original empirical research on various mentoring targets, including mentoring that occurs in community settings, academic settings, and organizational settings.

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Section: Mentoring Scholarship: Where Have We Been?mentioning

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Moving toward interdisciplinary dialogue in mentoring scholarship: An introduction to the Special Issue

Eby

Allen

2008

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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“…Although there has been a great deal of research in this field, it is argued that mentoring literature is still very young, seems to be a child in primary school. Thus, from several aspects this field needs to be developed (Ragins and Kram,2007;Wanberg et al 2003).…”

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Garden of mentorig: revisiting mentoring in entrepreneurial sense

Ergün¹,

Teraman²

2016

Pressacademia

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For many years, mentoring has been used as the influential career development tool in organizations. From a wider perspectiv e, mentoring is perceived as a way of people development by helping individuals to achieve something meaningful in their lives. However, due to proliferation of entrepreneurial initiatives, now it is not only scrutinized from an intra-organizational perspective, but also it is considered a tool for self-employed development. Therefore, new area for cultivation in the garden of mentoring has emerged: Entrepreneurial Mentoring. Although, its multi-faceted development effect for new ventures is accepted, mentoring is not highly discussed topic in entrepreneurship literature to the best of our knowledge Mathieu, 2015, St-Jean and Audet,2009). Hence, this conceptual study mainly deals with definitional issues, roots of mentoring and how mentoring evolves from career development towards entrepreneurial development perspective. The concern is offering some insights about multiple roles of mentoring, especially for new-start ventures as a supportive mechanism in their entrepreneurial journey.

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“…This approach accounted for unobserved heterogeneity between the treatment and control groups and selection bias, which have plagued virtually all prior empirical investigations of the effects of formal mentoring (Allen et al 2008;Underhill 2006;Wanberg, Welsh, and Hezlett 2003).…”

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Network Intervention: Assessing the Effects of Formal Mentoring on Workplace Networks

Srivastava¹

2015

Social Forces

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This article assesses the effects of formal mentoring on workplace networks. It also provides conceptual clarity and empirical evidence on expected gender differences in the effects of such programs. Qualitative interviews with 40 past participants in a formal mentoring program at a software laboratory in Beijing, China provided insight into the core mechanisms by which such programs produce network change: access to organizational elites, participation in semiformal foci, enhanced social skills, and legitimacy-enhancing signals. These mechanisms are theorized to lead to an expansion in protégés' networks, relative to those of non-participants in formal mentoring. Legitimacy-enhancing signals are theorized to enable female protégés to derive greater network benefit from formal mentoring than their male counterparts. Empirical support for these propositions came from a longitudinal quasi-experiment involving 75 employees who experienced the treatment of formal mentoring and 64 employees in a matched control group. A second empirical strategy, which exploited exogenous variation in the timing of treatment and enabled a comparison of the post-program networks of one treated group to the pre-program networks of another treated group, provided corroborating support. These findings contribute to research on the efficacy of formal mentoring, gender and workplace networks, and the cumulative advantage or disadvantage that can arise from network change. January, 20153

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Mentoring Research: A Review and Dynamic Process Model

Cited by 407 publications

References 135 publications

Moving toward interdisciplinary dialogue in mentoring scholarship: An introduction to the Special Issue

Moving toward interdisciplinary dialogue in mentoring scholarship: An introduction to the Special Issue

Garden of mentorig: revisiting mentoring in entrepreneurial sense

Network Intervention: Assessing the Effects of Formal Mentoring on Workplace Networks

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