, and the role of protégés in the relationship, are discussed. Also discussed is the need for mentoring and mentors …Practitioners and researchers agree on the importance of mentors, even though the spontaneous creation of mentors and … protégés is little understood. The mentor‐protégé creation process is addressed, and the individual and organisational benefits …

Formal mentoring programmes have developed in public accounting firms in order to gain career development and … organizational advantages and, although there is substantial literature concerning problems with formal mentoring programmes, there … are few studies which actually have compared the mentoring process at firms with a programme with those using an informal …