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Correlates of career‐oriented mentoring for early career managers and professionals
Author(s) -
Whitely William,
Dougherty Thomas W.,
Dreher George F.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.4030130204
Subject(s) - psychology , hierarchy , career development , variety (cybernetics) , socioeconomic status , affect (linguistics) , work environment , medical education , social psychology , job satisfaction , sociology , medicine , political science , demography , population , communication , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
This study examines several different kinds of correlates of career‐oriented mentoring experiences among early career managers and professionals. Survey data were collected from 416 respondents employed in a wide variety of jobs, organizations, and industries. The respondents averaged 30 years of age, and 28 per cent were women. Results indicated that younger, more work‐involved respondents from higher socioeconomic origins received more career‐oriented mentoring. In addition, managers received more mentoring than professionals, as did those who were higher in the organization hierarchy. While gender of the protégé was unrelated to the amount of career mentoring received, reasons are offered for this result. Various boundary conditions likely to affect mentoring processes are discussed and several directions are recommended for future research on mentoring.