PURPOSE To develop a deeper understanding of mentoring by exploring lived experiences of academic medicine faculty members. Mentoring relationships are key to developing productive careers in academic medicine, but such alliances hold a certain "mystery." METHOD Using qualitative techniques, between November 1999 and March 2000, the authors conducted individual telephone interviews of 16 facu...

This paper, adopts a case study approach in order to examine the issues relating to the deployment of a coaching and mentoring intervention within the context of a specific UK based small and medium-sized enterprise (SME). The SME coaching and mentoring research agenda is highlighted as an area urgently needing attention given its economic impact. This paper seeks to initiate this debate. The p...

Mentoring has long been considered important in career advancement in many fields. It is important to pay attention to and counter these trends because mentoring appears to be related to a number of organizational and individual-level outcomes. In this research in progress, we examine certain factors that may lead to a more effective mentoring relationship, thereby increasing the likelihood tha...

Lunch buddy mentoring is a particular kind of school-based mentoring program: college student mentors meet twice weekly during school lunch with mentees, and a new mentor is provided each semester. The program is designed to benefit elementary school children who are highly aggressive or chronically bullied. Novel to lunch buddy mentoring is a deemphasis on the strength and length of the relati...

Article history: Received 21 December 2013 Available online 28 February 2014 The value of mentoring is growing substantially as organizations take a renewed interest in employee development to better survive in the dynamic and competitive market today. In the wake of this renewed interest, this meta-analysis was conducted to quantitatively review the multi-level antecedents (e.g., individual, r...

Facebook is the most popular social networking site, with more than 500 million active members. With its ability to easily manage multi-user social networks synchronously, it provides a fertile foundation to promote e-mentoring among the current generation of technologyand Facebook-astute students. This study reviews Network of Practice (NoP) theories to provide insights to a mentoring structur...

This study examined the perceptions of elementary school beginning teachers (N= 136) across a Rocky Mountain state in the US regarding the mentoring support they received during their first year teaching. Beginning teachers were asked to report the types of mentoring support they received and to rate the helpfulness of this support on the Mentoring Support Survey. Individual item scores and sca...

Three years ago the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) charged the National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD) to develop a mentoring program to train directors of specialized PTSD clinical programs in effective management skills. There were three reasons for this. First, the number of veterans from the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts coming to the VA for PTSD treatment was rapidly increasing. Second, a ...

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of mentoring in medical education, valid and reliable instruments for evaluating the relationship of mentors and protégés are lacking. The aim of this study was to develop a feasible instrument to measure the satisfaction with mentoring relationships. METHODS Based on two existing questionnaires, the authors developed an instrume...

Most mentoring programs target at-risk youth, but programs for those already adjudicated in the juvenile justice system have been less extensively studied. We examined the referral process, rates of program completion and recidivism for 97 mentored and 287 non-mentored youth on probation in a large, urban, Hispanicdominated county. Youth who were referred to mentoring were already showing a pat...