The Mentoring Process

Paper Summary:

This paper describes the problems and background of mentoring, the relationship between a longer term professional and a protege with the objective of expanding the protege's ability to succeed in that profession. The paper states the purposes of the study: Identify the over-all feelings about mentoring and the types of assistance, which are perceived by the mentors to be most beneficial in supporting and retaining new employees. The author reported that she used an anonymous questionnaire that was sent to beginners, mentors and administrators. The key finding was that all participants were very satisfied with the mentor program.

Table of Contents
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the study
Summary
Review of the Literature
History of Mentoring
Defining the Mentoring Process
Mentoring in Other Professions
Summary
Research and Design Procedures
Defining the Study Population
Instrument Design
Data Collection
Summary
Findings
Analysis of Responses
Summary
Summary, Implications, and Recommendations
Summary of the Study
Implications
Recommendations

From the Paper:

"As early as 1962, induction programs that provided assistance to beginning teachers were being described. Mentoring in a business setting is described as being very desirable and conducive to interaction among the protege and the established workers. Medicine has long had a system of mentoring in place which is called residency. Whether nor not the condition of this process is optimal depends upon to whom you speak. Senior staff doctors would probably say yes; an intern who has not slept in 30 hours might not agree with them."

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