... career. Findings The results demonstrate that organizational-related variables, namely, employability culture and mentoring are viewed as potential predictors of protean career. There are significant moderating effects of career strategies on the relationship between both employability culture...

...Tina Salter; Judie M Gannon Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine where and how coaching and mentoring disciplines overlap or differ in approach. Coaching and mentoring have emerged as important interventions as the role of helping relationships have gained prominence in human...

...Jennifer Schultz Tatiana   Bachkirova , Peter   Jackson and David   Clutterbuck . Coaching & Mentoring Supervision: Theory and Practice . Maidenhead : Open University Press   2011 . 300 pp. , ISBN: 9780335242986   £27.99 ($32.00), Paperback © Emerald Group...

...Katerina K. Sarri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a mentor training intervention for experienced entrepreneurs in order to support and advise new and early stage female entrepreneurs in an attempt to enrich the limited literature of empirical data in the area...

... wasta with networking and mentoring. Design/methodology/approach The argument is based on relevant literature, the authors' own knowledge through conducting research in the Arab world, informal interviews and survey data conducted across the Middle Eastern Region. Findings The research clearly...

...David Simmonds; Anne Marie Zammit Lupi Purpose This paper seeks to examine the effectiveness of an innovative e‐mentoring programme introduced in an international group of luxury hotels. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs the survey method, with quantitative and qualitative data...

...Sooyoung Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest a conceptual model of formal mentoring as a leadership development initiative including “learning goal orientation”, “mentoring functions”, and “leadership competencies” as key constructs of the model. Design/methodology/approach...

...Paul Greenbank Purpose This paper examines the way social class influences the relationship between business mentors and small business owner‐managers. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on the author's experience of mentoring businesses with The Prince's Trust. Three businesses...

...Jim Stewart; Vanessa Knowles This paper provides an overview of the role and contribution of mentoring in the context of a degree programme in which students spend their second and third years in‐company. As well as describing the process within the context of the degree, the paper examines...

..., these included: Women Expatriates Mentoring Interpersonal communications According to Smith and Still (1996), the international human resource management literature has given very little attention to women as expatriates, “probably because international assignments have long remained a male...

...Maureen Woodd This paper explores the concept of mentoring from a distance and uses a case study of a mentoring relationship to examine some of the issues. Using a new definition of mentoring by Wighton (1993) to explore the meaning of mentoring using telematics, the issues of how we communicate...