... stereotypes about roles and abilities, the scarcity of mentors and personal networks, the lack of significant line experience and visible assignments, and, particularly for women, family responsibilities. Successful intervention methods include holding managers accountable for progress on diversity metrics...

...Robert G. Wright; William B. Werther, Jr Practitioners and researchers agree on the importance of mentors,even though the spontaneous creation of mentors and protégés is little understood. The mentor‐protégé creation process is addressed, and the individual and organisational benefits, and the role...

...Barry Smith While mentoring has obvious benefits to the protege, benefits to the mentor and to the organisation are often long term or invisible. A procedure named Mutual Mentoring on Projects is proposed which produces observable short‐term benefits for protege,mentor and organisation and minimum...

...Carol A. McKeen; Ronald J. Burke An overview is provided of the mentoring process and why it can be crucial to the success of women managers. Also explored are some of the reasons why it is more difficult for women to find mentors than for men,and a frank look is taken at the problems of cross‐sex...

... broaden our vision to include women′s experiences can we see that the standard by which we are being judged is a male standard and that our inability to advance results from the patriarchal structures within which managers work © MCB UP Limited 1989 Career development Mentors Sex...