Invited reaction: Setting the stage for further study of developmental relationships

✍ Scribed by Laura L. Bierema

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1044-8004
• DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.3920100303

✦ Synopsis

explore an important and neglected area of HRD in their study of formal developmental relationships. They define formal developmental relationships as "initiatives that pair up employees with peers, senior managers, or outside consultants for the purposes of learning and development." Examples of formal developmental relationships include mentoring, apprenticeships, team coaching, peer coaching, executive coaching, action learning, and structured networks. A major contribution of this study is its expansion of formalized development from mentoring to a host of other relationships that potentially foster learning and development in the work context. Douglas and McCauley randomly selected three hundred US. for-profit