... the scale enables employees to evaluate their own organizational memory, it may not necessarily be an accurate indicator of their knowledge. Practical implications – The scale can be used as a knowledge audit instrument for examining attitudes to mentoring and knowledge sharing, as well...

... for achieving competitive advantage. To gain maximum benefit from new knowledge, it must be efficiently integrated into the organization within a continuous knowledge life cycle. In this respect, mentoring is becoming ever more effective as a means to facilitate knowledge creation and sharing and build...

...Daniel James Homitz; Zane L. Berge Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine e‐mentoring as a way to sustain distance training and education. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes a framework for sustaining distance training and education by adding e‐mentoring (mentoring over...

...Christopher Orpen Examines the effects of a two‐year formal mentoring programme in a medium‐sized manufacturing company on the work motivation, organizational commitment and job performance of mentees. Single measures were obtained, for each mentor‐mentee pair, at the completion of the programme...

...Bob Garvey Explores certain problems associated with formal mentoring within five organizations. Also offers solutions to some of these problems. However, a number of the solutions offered here may be difficult to implement as they represent for some a major shift in thinking. The five...