...Hui Zhang; Luciara Nardon Purpose The international mentoring literature predominantly features traditional company-assigned expatriates as protégés overlooking other types of global talent, such as immigrants, refugees, and international graduates, who may help organizations gain long-term IHRM...

...Connie Deng; Nick Turner Purpose The aims of this critical review are to identify the mentor characteristics that lead to superior mentoring outcomes and to provide human resources development (HRD) professionals with evidence-based suggestions for recruiting, selecting and training mentors...

... East and North Africa region who have or had a mentor during their careers. Structural equation modelling is used to examine the proposed hypotheses. Findings The results indicate that both mentoring and coping self-efficacy positively influence affective occupational commitment. Coping self...

...Fiona Wilson Purpose The purpose of this research was to understand the lived experience of mentoring to provide insight for those who manage and experience mentoring at work. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews with a cohort of 43 mentors and their mentees plus key...

...Daniel Martin; Stephen Bok Purpose – In all, 218 business/psychology working students contributed to the validation of the 20-item Mentor Expectations Measure (MEM). Mentors expected outcomes of mentoring protégés based on protégé race and mentors’ level of social dominance orientation (SDO) were...

...Stephen Sauer; Scott Desmond; Martin Heintzelman Purpose – This paper aims to examine how participation in varsity athletics during college affects career success in the first decade after graduation. The paper predicted that student-athletes would develop greater mentoring skills and emotional...

... Mentoring Job evaluation Empowerment Following from this, the purpose of the study is to understand the impact that the schemes have had on the beneficiaries and the process by which this impact takes place. Our theoretical understanding is influenced by the interplay between agency and structure...

... were differentially related to career success and organizational commitment. Research limitations/implications The relationships were identified after controlling for an array of factors and for mentoring received, which attests to the importance of intra‐organizational network resources for career...

...Adelina Broadbridge This paper assesses the incidence and contribution that mentoring has to the career development of retail managers. Previous research has identified the benefits that mentoring relationships have for the protégé, the mentor and the organisation, although none have compared...

...Stephen Gibb Identifies the need to develop a conceptual framework to explain the diversity of organized mentoring in formal schemes as an important practical and theoretical concern. Interviews with participants in formal mentoring schemes were undertaken to obtain accounts of their experiences...

...J. Barton Cunningham; Ted Eberle Describes the benefits of mentoring in relation to training personnel and gives guidelines on selecting suitable role models as mentors. Discusses in depth the essentials of a good, solid mentor‐prot\?\g\?\ relationship. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Mentoring...

...Stephen Gibb; David Megginson Reports a survey of 30 UK mentoring scheme organizers by questionnaire, concerning how long schemes had been established, mentor roles, reasons for schemes being introduced, how mentors are selected,how mentors and prot\?\g\?\s are matched, and about various aspects...