Purpose – This special issue seeks to examine mentoring relationships and offer new perspectives and frameworks, suggesting exciting avenues for future research on mentoring and career development. Design/methodology/approach – In the last two decades, the workplace has been dramatically...

Purpose – To examine the influence of demographic differences on congruence of mentors' and protégés' perceptions of developmental support and frequency of communication. Design/methodology/approach – Data on demographics (organizational tenure, age, gender, and educational level),...

Purpose – This article aims to examine the process of mentoring and career development within the global arena. Although much has been written on the adjustment of expatriates, relatively little research has examined the exchange of information and knowledge among workers in different...

Purpose: The authors introduce a new measure of felt obligation to mentor in order to explore generalized reciprocity in mentoring. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether felt obligation to mentor adds prediction to mentor job performance in combination with mentoring functions...

Purpose: Using a career lens, the purpose of this paper is to examine the psychological factors related to the career success (e.g. performance and adjustment) of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs). Design/methodology/approach: This research examines the previously unstudied relationship between...

Purpose – To be the first study to consider the difference between men's and women's perceptions of most important mentoring functions. Design/methodology/approach – Survey recipients identified the three most important things that mentors can do for their protégés. Two independent coders...

Purpose – This paper aims to advance the argument for the transformative potential of e‐mentoring for professional women. Design/methodology/approach – Existing mentoring and e‐mentoring models are evaluated as the context for the development of an innovative e‐mentoring programme for...

Purpose – This study sets out to examine whether protégés have more favorable perceptions of an organization's culture for balancing work and family than non‐protégés. Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from 418 employees of a major public accounting firm who completed a...

Purpose – To improve understanding of mentoring and other leadership development practices in health care organizations, focusing on three questions: What has been done? What is being done? What should be done? Design/methodology/approach – First, 160 key informant interviews explored...

Purpose – This study seeks to examine the role of informal mentoring in career success in an African work environment. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 510 first‐line bank managers through a survey of ten banks in four central business districts of Lagos State,...