This paper aims to investigate whether reverse mentoring as a professional tool enhances career competencies of employees, leading to higher levels of innovative work behavior and reduced turnover intention of employees.
This study examines the proposed model using a multi-wave data collection method from a sample of 419 Indian software professionals. The proposed model was examined using partial least squares structural equation modelling.
The findings suggest that reverse mentoring exerts a significant influence in enhancing career competencies of the employees, leading to enhanced innovative work behavior and reduced turnover intention.
The findings indicate that strategically employing reverse mentoring as a cost-effective method enables managers to improve employees' career competencies, promote innovation, and decrease the likelihood of employee turnover intention.
This study constitutes one of the earliest empirical examinations of reverse mentoring as a professional tool to increase employees' career competencies, which subsequently boosts their innovative work behavior and lowers their intentions to leave the organization.
