Mentoring Literature Review

Literature Review:

Over the last 50 years, mentoring program has been largely emphasized in almost all sectors of the organization, different researchers has proved through their research that mentoring program has brought some or the other kind of a change in an employee as an individual and organization as a whole. The term mentoring is as old as ancient Greeks times, when odysseys told his friend to act as a mentor for his son and teach him how to face challenges in life. Since then this term is evolving and its meaning has changed to some extent as now mentors are not consider to be older in age but rather more experienced than their mentees.

Mentoring in an organizational context

In an organizational context mentoring program act as a

In formal mentoring organizations provide set of guidelines to the mentor and the mentee and they are informed of the goals and purposes of the program. Whereas in an informal mentoring program no goals and purpose are defined by the organization but rather mentor and mentee discuss informally about work related issues.

Other type of mentoring includes peer mentoring and E- mentoring. In peer mentoring two people of same status and experience help and supports each other in achieving goals whereas E-mentoring is more recent form of creating relationship between mentors and mentees through computer mediated communication such as E-mail and other electronic technologies to build relationship. Since this phenomena of mentor and mentee has immensely increasing in corporate world, therefore different researches has proved different outcomes of mentoring program and its impact on employee and on an

Murray and Owen has identified various benefits of mentoring program which includes productivity, efficiency, motivation of the senior employees and improved strategic and succession plan (1991). Hansford et al. (2003) found many beneficial outcomes in his research, the most frequently cited were collaboration and networking. Other related benefits includes personal satisfaction, career advancements and enjoyment and challenge at work for both mentor and mentees.

In this fast pace of competition, organization are developing different strategies to reach their employees full potential. Efficient mentoring programs if implemented in an organization can bring the best out of the employees and they will be motivated to work and achieve organizational goals.Mentoring programs not only enhances employee’s targeted competencies but also develop different leadership skills, which help them in working as a team and achieving targets more efficiently. It helps in retaining employees as they are satisfied by the career advancement and the guidance they