This ebook on mentoring relationships, which features some of the leading scholars in this field, offers new perspectives and frameworks suggesting exciting avenues for future research on mentoring and career development. In the last two decades, the workplace has been dramatically transformed....

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: The continued expansion of organizations outside China's planned economy due to the Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI) is expected to increase recruitment of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs). Drawing on social capital, motivation and socialization theories, this study examines the...

Purpose: The number of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) is growing, yet we know relatively little about their work experiences, especially how they react to stress. The purpose of this study is to examine whether challenge and hindrance stressors influence SIEs' intent to remain as well as the...