The mentoring information exchange: when do mentors seek information from their protégés?
✍ Scribed by Ellen J. Mullen; Raymond A. Noe
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
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✦ Synopsis
The mentoring literature has focused largely on outcomes associated with having been mentored. This study considered informational outcomes associated with being a mentor, viewing the prote ge as a source of information for the mentor and vice versa. Survey data were collected across 17 organizations from 161 mentors and 140 prote ge s. Mentor characteristics and perceptions and characteristics of the relationship were hypothesized to be related to mentors' seeking information from their prote ge s. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that perceived appropriateness of mentor information seeking, perceived prote ge competence, vocational mentoring functions and prote ge in¯uence contributed signi®cantly to the prediction of mentor information seeking among the mentor sample; hierarchical distance, perceived appropriateness and mentor self-monitoring were signi®cant predictors in the prote ge sample. Future research directions are discussed.