What Career Benefits can Mentoring Truly Bring for Protégé? Evidence from Meta-Analysis

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10.2991/msmi-17.2017.47How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mentoring; Mentor; Prot,g,; Career benefits; Meta-analysis

Abstract

Mentoring has been regarded as an effective approach to develop human resources in organizations, for its close association with the career development and growth of both mentor and prot,g,. Mentoring is conducive to benefit newcomers or prot,g,s' career via providing vocational support, psychosocial support and role modeling. Results from a meta-analysis of 83 independent samples (N=13,614) documented in the relevant empirical literatures revealed that mentoring was positively related to job satisfaction, organizational commitment, task performance, OCB, career prospects, career satisfaction, but turnover. Moreover, the relationship between mentoring and compensation was not so robust. Finally, contributions and limitations were also discussed.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhihui Cheng
AU  - Yi Han
AU  - Jingtao Fu
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - What Career Benefits can Mentoring Truly Bring for Protégé? Evidence from Meta-Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Management Science and Management Innovation (MSMI 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 216
EP  - 222
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/msmi-17.2017.47
ID  - Cheng2017/06
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