Antecedents of early career stage mentoring among Chinese employees
✍ Scribed by Samuel Aryee; Susanna Lo; Inn-Lee Kang
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
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✦ Synopsis
This study examined the mediating in¯uence of protege-initiated mentoring relationships on the relationship between personality and situational characteristics and mentoring received. Data were obtained from Hong Kong Chinese graduate employees (N 184) in their early career stage. Results of the regression analysis showed that protege-initiated mentoring relationships mediated the relationship between the personality (extraversion) but not the situational (individual development culture and opportunities for interactions on the job) characteristics and mentoring received. In other words, extraversion was indirectly related to mentoring received through protegeinitiated mentoring relationships but individual development culture and opportunities for interactions on the job were directly related to mentoring received. Additionally, opportunities for interactions on the job indirectly in¯uenced mentoring received through protege-initiated mentoring relationships. Limitations of the study, implications of the ®ndings and directions for future research are discussed.