Mentoring literature
What does research tell us about the effectiveness of mentoring in organisations?
An abstract from the original article by Jocelyn Buxton. Click here to read the full article.
Buxton brings together research from the early 1980s onwards on the effectiveness of mentoring in organizations, judged by perceived outcomes for protégé, mentor and organization. The article compares the outcomes for non-mentored and mentored protégés for informal versus formal mentoring. The principles of mentoring are discussed and how Mentor selection is important. Four phases of the mentoring relationship are defined:
Finally,the paper looks at a number of outcomes including