mentoring functions. Design/methodology/approach – Survey recipients identified the three most important things that mentors can … do for their protégés. Two independent coders categorized the behaviors listed by the 637 respondents. Findings – There … was little difference between men's and women's perceptions of important mentoring behaviors. Women more than men reported …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the personality characteristics of mentors. Design … mentor. These results suggest that participation as a mentor could be influenced to some degree by personality. Mentoring … implications – If individuals volunteer for mentoring based primarily on personality tendencies, then it is possible that many …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the under‐researched subject of the role of mentoring relationships …'s corporate workplace to their new venture. Support for both the recent literature on multiple mentors and for gender differences … in the patterns of these mentoring relationships was also found. Originality/value – This is the first published study to …

This article reviews mentoring literature and presents the findings emerging from research into the dynamics of … mentoring and how similarities and differences between mentor and mentee influence learning for both parties and the …

Mentoring relationships may be important for female managers seeking career advancement in both domestic and … international management. The relative scarcity of mentoring relationships for female managers, particularly outside the USA, raises … certain questions. This paper reviews some of the current literature on mentoring in order to highlight the barriers faced by …

development for mentors and those interested in mentoring. The second part is a discussion about ideas on learning and their … relationship to mentoring. It draws on some issues raised by the survey material and highlights the need for a mentor development … for mentors devised and used by the authors.  …

This article suggests that simple imagery and visualization techniques can be used with the mentoring relationship …. After identifying the challenge that mentors need strategies to promote mentee development, the article presents a case for … to pre‐service teachers. The article concludes by exploring the potential for the use of visualization by mentors arguing …

satisfaction with the mentoring relationship, and their perception of the effectiveness of their assigned mentors. The results …Addresses the effectiveness of the matching process of third party managed entrepreneurial mentoring programs. The role … component of development agency involvement in assisting entrepreneurs – matching mentors and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs, who …

This paper offers a description of mentoring within the context of a large organisation. Mentoring is increasingly … both sides of the Atlantic as a highly effective human resource development process. Examples of mentoring activity can be … businesses. The Halifax plc is one such organisation and we aim to offer a description of the beginnings of mentoring within the …

that for themselves?” The use of supervision as a means to support mentors in their work is discussed and examined. The … framework described places a value on the need for individual mentors to be able to understand their own process when working … with a mentee, thus ensuring that mentees will receive the best possible support themselves.  …