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Article: Building Effective Mentoring Relationships.
- Article from:
- Review of Business
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
- Author:
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The focus of this paper is on the determinants of effective mentoring relationships. A model proposing direct relationships between self-efficacy and effective mentorship that leads to greater lob satisfaction is presented.
Introduction
Today mentoring is a common practice among businesses to nurture the talents of younger subordinates [17]. The word mentoring itself connotes a variety of roles and meanings. A mentor might be a counselor, guru, teacher, coach, or adviser. Organizations have chosen different terms to represent the relationship. Although Merrill Lynch and the Department of Agriculture have used the word mentor, the IRS has preferred ...