Vocational and psychosocial mentoring functions: Identifying mentors who serve both
✍ Scribed by Ellen J. Mullen
- Book ID
- 102858728
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 748 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1044-8004
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✦ Synopsis
Results of this study help identify those who serve both vocational and psychosocial mentoringfunctions. Mentoring research has suggested that proteges are drawn to competent mentors (Olian, Carroll, Giannantonio, and Feren, 1988) but has not empirically examined which mentors serve both vocational (career-related) and psychosocial (personal development) functions. Serving in both capacities indicates the most intense mentoring (Kram, 1983). In this study, older mentors who have greater organization-based self esteem (OBSE), who perceive the protege as competent, and who are influenced by their proteges reported serving more vocational and psychosocial mentoringfunctions. Proteges indicated that the matter of who initiates the relationship determines whether vocational and psychosocial functions are both served.