Correlates of career-oriented mentoring for early career managers and professionals

This study examines several different kinds of correlates of career-oriented mentoring experiences among early career managers and professionals. Survey data were collected from 416 respondents employed in a wide variety of jobs, organizations, and industries. The respondents averaged 30 years of ag...

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Published in:	Journal of organizational behavior Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 141 - 154
Main Authors:	Whitely, William, Dougherty, Thomas W., Dreher, George F.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01-03-1992 John Wiley and Sons Wiley Wiley Periodicals Inc
Subjects:	Age Business Careers Correlation analysis Demographics Demography Employee development Factors Job hunting Labor markets Manager behavior Managers Masters Degrees Mentoring Mentors Organizational behavior Professional Training Professionals Research design Socioeconomics Studies United States of America Workforce United States > US
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Summary:	This study examines several different kinds of correlates of career-oriented mentoring experiences among early career managers and professionals. Survey data were collected from 416 respondents employed in a wide variety of jobs, organizations, and industries. The respondents averaged 30 years of age, and 28 per cent were women. Results indicated that younger, more work-involved respondents from higher socioeconomic origins received more career-oriented mentoring. In addition, managers received more mentoring than professionals, as did those who were higher in the organization hierarchy. While gender of the protégé was unrelated to the amount of career mentoring received, reasons are offered for this result. Various boundary conditions likely to affect mentoring processes are discussed and several directions are recommended for future research on mentoring.
Bibliography:	ark:/67375/WNG-13FPTCLT-9 The analysis and writing for this study were completed while the first author was a summer visitor at the Laboratory for Applied Psychology, State University of Ghent, Belgium. The first author would like to express his appreciation to Professors Doctors Pol Cotsier and Rita Spoelders-Claus for their generous support and encouragement during the preparation of this manuscript. Support for the first author was provided by a Nobel summer research grant. Additional financial support was provided by the Ponder Faculty Development and Research Fund, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri-Columbia. istex:7B0A24375AD69CD4D27877A0AB6C6D158AF165FE ArticleID:JOB4030130204 The analysis and writing for this study were completed while the first author was a summer visitor at the Laboratory for Applied Psychology, State University of Ghent, Belgium. The first author would like to express his appreciation to Professors Doctors Pol Cotsier and Rita Spoelders‐Claus for their generous support and encouragement during the preparation of this manuscript. Support for the first author was provided by a Nobel summer research grant. Additional financial support was provided by the Ponder Faculty Development and Research Fund, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri‐Columbia. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23
ISSN:	0894-3796 1099-1379
DOI:	10.1002/job.4030130204