MENTORING: CHOICES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS

While there is some evidence that mentoring is a popular career development intervention in Britain, it is often unclear just what an organizational mentoring programme involves and how mentoring relates to other initiatives organizations might introduce to promote the career development of their employees. Suggests that mentoring should not be thought of as one distinct intervention, but rather as a range of options that share important common elements. Both individuals and employers have choices to make about the kind of mentoring relationship that they may wish to encourage. On its own, no mentoring programme is likely to be a panacea for career development. Employers have to consider how mentoring fits with the other activities which they might offer to promote the career development of their employees.