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Article: Tending talent: academic research--and practitioners' experiences--demonstrate mentoring's return on investment.(Organizational Development)
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- HRMagazine
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- May 1, 2009
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It's no news flash, of course, that great futures come from mentoring--the pairing of managers with proteges or peers to share knowledge, offer guidance, lend informal learning and help build careers.
As organizations continue to face the recession's tightening grip, however, conventional wisdom might suggest a corresponding pullback on such historically popular, but hard-to-manage programs. Yet the exact opposite appears to be true:
"There's an opportunity to articulate a strong argument for why mentoring is more valuable now," says Kathy E. Kram, Ph.D., a scholar in organizational behavior at Boston University School of Management, who has studied ...