Mentoring: A Case Study

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In successful organizations, mentoring practice is an important employee development method. A career development and high individuals’ psychosocial support can be gained depend on the ability of mentors informally or formally to implement the mentoring program activities (Mundia et. al., 2014). Mentoring is a program to predict variables of individual’s advancement and productivity.

Kram and Hall (1996) stated that the definition of mentoring has developed from the traditional relationship between senior and junior to other types of mentoring such as peer mentoring, subordinate or reverse mentoring and team mentoring. Somehow, many of technology field of organizations have applied reverse mentoring which make the junior as a mentor so that …show more content…

According to Santamaria (2003), states that mentoring as one-to one relationship which is, are expert or experience person are voluntarily to teach, supported and encourage another. Therefore, Levinson et al. (1978) describe mentor as an importance relationship for a young man to develop as he will became “his own man”. Nevertheless, Kram (1985) define mentoring as dyads establish that individual received support from many mentors during their career span including peer support called developmental networks or relationship constellations and establish the phases and function of …show more content…

According to Thomas & Kram (1988a; 1988b), a traditional mentoring relationship as peer mentoring, which is a senior person will assists the protégé’s personally and professional development. Either for Carmin (1988) describes mentoring as “an interactive process occurring between individuals of differing levels of experience and expertise that incorporates interpersonal or psychosocial development, career, and or educational development, and socialization functions into the relationship.”

Professional relationships is an experienced individual who called mentee in developing particular knowledge and skill normally can improve personal and professional growth of less-experienced people (Pertin, 2011). Whereas, Donaldson et al. (2000), defines as face to face, dyadic and long term associations between supervisory adults and students which help to enhance professional, personal or academic

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