...Definitions The definitions below are to explain the research clearly: Mentor. These are individuals whom possess both experience and knowledge in the work place, and because of this, they are able to offer guidance to those who are starting in their company (The Pennsylvania State University, 2005) Protégée. The individual whom the mentor provide with guidance and support (Journal of Business and Psychology, 2001) Social Exchange Theory. Social theory that states that people continue or terminate relationships based on the weight of the benefits and costs of doing so (pyschologyabout.com) Leadership. A relationship between leaders and followers, both individually and in group, in mutual pursuit of organizational outcomes and in the fulfillment of individual needs and wants (Mavrinac, 2005) Value. The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something (google.com). Methods and Procedures The primary research was conducted by administrating an electronic survey to ten working people. The survey ranged from questions on their thought of mentorship in the work place to whether they had actually implemented it and if was proven successful. Secondary research was gathered electronically. Findings Since its early history, mentorship in the workplace has proven to be successful in almost all instances when implemented correctly. Through mentorship, protégées are able to learn the both the values of the company and...
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...Running head: MENTORING Mentoring in Organizations Eula M. Todd Troy University MGt6671-XTIB Dr. Rod Blackwell September 26, 2011 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide readers with a greater understanding of the mentoring process and the different types of mentoring available to organizations. This project also seeks to enlighten readers on the advantages of mentoring relationships for organizations, mentors, and mentees alike. Mentoring in Organizations Mentoring and coaching are words that may be used interchangeably in regards to employee development. Mentoring is a process that typically involves a one-on-one relationship between two members of an organization’s workforce. Mentoring programs are believed to be extremely beneficial for organizations. In fact, “much of the excitement over mentoring in business and industry originated from a 1979 article in the Harvard Business Review, which claimed that professionals who had mentors reported higher levels of satisfaction, earned more money at a younger age and were better educated (Gibson, 2004, p. 263).” Research conducted from about 1989 to 2004 indicated that improved job approval and greater salary levels, better rates of advancement, improved levels of organizational obligation and socialization, and reduced feelings of alienation in the workplace are indeed benefits associated with mentoring programs. (Gibson, 2004) Just as the benefits of mentoring programs are numerous, so also are...
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...success in rolling out a mentoring program, while others achieve only a modicum of success? We believe that the companies that are most successful view corporate mentoring as an organic process, meaning that they understand that mentoring programs evolve and grow. Our experience demonstrates that the difference between mentoring success and failure lies in the ability to build capacity and integrate learning continuously. In order to create a successful mentoring program, you should answer 20 questions. We've included dos and don'ts for each, based on research and our experience in developing a mentoring program at Brown-Forman Corporation. 1. What are our business reasons for developing a mentoring program? You should develop a mentoring program if and when you have solid business reasons, such as to speed up the development of future leaders or to share organizational knowledge. Do your homework. Look at employee retention rates, the percentage of senior managers who will reach retirement in the next five to 10 years, current bench strength, and developmental objectives. Don’t develop a mentoring program because it’s popular or because you've read that it works for other companies. 2. What organizational support exists and what needs to be developed? Successful mentoring initiatives require visible support and involvement from the highest levels of the organization. Do develop a mentoring program when senior leadership...
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...Mentoring Mentoring is something that is used every day in life. People are often mentors and do not even realize it. There are two different types of mentoring that can take place. The first is informal mentoring, an example of which would be directing someone to a classroom or helping someone understand an assignment. The second is formal mentoring which takes place in a workplace or school. The organization assigns someone to mentor a colleague, and make sure that they fully understand the tasks given, and are a resource in a situation that the mentee cannot resolve themselves. Both methods are very effective in everyday life and are used by many people. Organizations can bring greater predictability to the workplace by establishing formal mentoring systems. Mentoring is a method people use to help other in making sure that things are done efficiently and effectively and that people have the support they need when they are stuck in a situation they may not be used to dealing with and may not know how to fix. In order to better understand how mentoring can be applied in a real world situation, we interviewed three people in the St. Lawrence Business faculty who are directly involved in mentoring. First we mentored Melinda Vanzanten, who was a mentee, Ann Vadala, who was her mentor, and finally John Conrad, who organizes mentoring in the faculty. Our first interviewee was Melinda Vanzanten, who gave us some personal accounts of how mentoring has affected her professionally...
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...Biblical Worldview Essay As I have learned in this course, and the last five months of rebirth and renewal in my Christian faith, we all are created in the image of God. He desires a personal relationship with every one of us, and He seeks each of us out to have that relationship. Yet many of us turn away from Him and his love for a multitude of reasons. Inspired by my own life experiences, my future career plans are to become a peer mentor, or crisis counselor helping other fellow veterans with their life challenges. That is if I ever go back to work, as my accident in September has left me unable to work, in which case I would then use my knowledge and life experiences to do the same but in a volunteer capacity. I feel that this is what I am destined to do, and on the day of my wreck, God gave me that message. By using a foundation based on my Christian worldviews, and personal experiences I feel that I can greatly help to inspire, motivate, and encourage my patients to not give up, to know that they are not alone in their struggles, and that everyone has a life plan, they just need guidance finding it. One example I could use without evangelizing to my patients is the power of renewal. A lot of veterans with PTSD usually do not have a strong Christian faith as I once didn’t, and sometimes totally discount God and religion, (as I had done). Renewal is the process of restoring spiritual strength coming from new birth. The experience of coming home from a combat zone after...
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...The Importance of Mentorship In this day and age we can often times get carried away in thinking we have to do everything and anything on our own. It is society telling us that if we asked for advice or help we are weak. However, this is completely not the case. In order to get anywhere in life you have to have an amazing support system. What is a better support system then having a mentor and being a mentor to those around you? In this article we will discuss the 33 percent rule? Never heard of it? Well you're about too. 33 Percent of Your Time Needs to be Spent Mentoring Yes you of course should have a mentor in your life, but what will give you even more satisfaction is mentoring someone yourself. Therefore you should spend 33 percent of your time with someone who needs guidance themselves. This keeps the cycle going. These are typically younger people who have the same dreams or goals that you once had, and have achieved. The young person you are mentoring should look up to you, value the same things you do, and can learn from the lessons you have to share with them about your experiences. These three things can make your mentorship great. 33 Percent of Your Time Needs to be Spent with the People on Your Same Level...
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...recruitment beginning with a plan. We can make plans on presentations at local businesses, PSAs on the radio, and a booth at community events, but recruitment is just as likely to happen in a casual conversation at the grocery store. Successful recruitment is an outcome of overall program quality. Simply put, if yours is a well-run, professional program, recruitment will be a whole lot easier because those qualities will shine through in everything you do. Potential volunteers will feel positive about participating in what you are doing, believing that their experience with you will be a good one. Horace, you are right a mentoring program will be a fantastic way to continue to hone their customer service skills as well as to begin to develop them for other positions in the organization. A mentor program also helps people to be a lot more productive, better socialized, and less stressed while at the work place....
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...Mentoring and coaching within an organization has grown the development of employees. The need to retain and recruit employees has driven companies to reinvest in the human capital of their organizations. Today's business environment forces companies to revalute the value of career development paths for employees. The focus of employee development has creates a sense of community and loyalty between employee and employer. Relationship building within an organization is a top priority for business success. Generationally changes in the workforce have created multiple variations of employees in today's workforce. The largest generation of employees is the baby boomers. This generation has traditionally been very committed to companies and have high trust and loyalty. Generation millennials have a much different outlook at employment than baby boomers. These two are just a couple examples of generational employees that companies must adapt to retain. Mentoring has been around for quite some time but traditionally was reserved for upper management. Companies realized the benefits of mentoring could be transferred to all employees as a part of development and growth plans. We will look at mentoring to compare the idea that mentoring is an effective and low cost way to develop employees and build that trust and loyalty needed for employees and organizations. We will look at two different articles from authors who have conducted research on the positive effects of employee development...
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...Master of Adult education Mentoring the workplace Submitted to: Kate Collier Submitted by: Jaininderjit Kaur Student number: 10524597 PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION:- "Mentoring is an alliance that creates a space for dialogue that results in reflection, action and learning." Mentoring – developing insight to turn hindsight into foresight!” This essay aims to provide an overview of the submission report proposing the introduction of formal mentoring for my current workplace. In the first part of paper I gave overview about my organization. Then I add definitions of mentoring and formal mentoring and then I presented the literature review of formal mentoring. In the second part of this paper I explained the importance of mentoring and formal mentoring and I also shed the lights on models of mentoring. In last part of the essay I prepared the proposal for a pilot of mentoring scheme. ABOUT ORGANIZATION: - at present I am working in the Wahroonga Nursing Home, Wahroonga, it comes under the Thompson Health Care Organization. This facility is for forty two residents. My designation is there as an Assistant in Nursing and I am working there from last three years as a permanent part time employee. The total numbers of employees are sixty four. Out of them thirteen were registered nurses and twenty eight were registered nurses and rest of the staff belongs to other departments such as kitchen, laundry...
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...Mentoring is the social foundation of research. The mentor has the opportunity to draw the best from the junior person by acting as an adviser, teacher, role model, motivator, and supportive advocate. Mentoring is an ideal way to pass ethical and professional values to others in the field. Institutions that pursue long-term development and growth must foster an encouraging, jointly supportive environment. A key element in that cultivation process is creating a mutually respectful relationship between mentor and trainee. Learning Objectives After reading this module, you should be able to: * Clarify the roles and responsibilities of mentors and those that they mentor. * Provide guidance to assist all who participate in research to avoid problems and to optimize the mentoring experience. * Describe barriers to mentoring, particularly for women and minority researchers, and potential solutions to these barriers. * Describe the importance of mentoring and the way in which mentoring occurs. ------------------------------------------------- Foundation Mentoring is one of the primary means for one generation of researchers to impart their knowledge to the next generations. More than textbooks and formal classes, the relatively informal dimensions of research, including the relationship between mentor and trainee, prepare the next generation of professionals. In her 1977 speech at the Nobel Banquet, prizewinner Rosalyn Yalow addressed the students of Stockholm, identifying...
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...THE EVOLUTION OF MENTORING By: Patrick Delaney Mentor was first documented in Greek mythology. Mentor was with whom Odysseus trusted to run his household and see to his son’s education when Odysseus went off to fight the Trojans. Many things have changed in the three thousand years since. Mentoring has evolved from the traditional one-on-one relationship to eMentoring. This paper will look at the different types of mentoring relating to leadership and how it has changed over the years. Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development. Mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less. There are two broad types of mentoring relationships: formal and informal. Informal relationships develop on their own between partners. Formal mentoring, on the other hand, refers to a structured process supported by the organization and addressed to target populations. Traditionally, mentoring was a formal one-on-one face-to-face relationship between an older more experienced person and a young person with no experience. At one time, the term 'apprentice' was commonplace in various trades, most commonly in blue collar industries; however, apprenticeships...
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...Week Eight Assignment Tracey Petersen MAOL 545 June 2015 Mentoring is the “in” thing (Colley, 2000). It has become highly popular in professional settings in the last decade. According to The Center for Creative Leadership, “77 % of U.S. companies have implemented formal mentoring programs (Karasik, 2010). In the current global professional climate, it seems that our employees and team members are our greatest assets (www.mentoringtalent.com). Mentoring programs can enable team members to reach their fullest potential. Traditionally, the concept of mentoring has been informal; formalizing it in an organizational setting has its challenges, but also rewards. There have been many attempts at defining the concept of mentoring, but for Nathalie Gehrke, author of “Towards a Definition of Mentoring”, none seem to fully embrace the essence of the concept. Gehrke started out with this initial definition: “A mentor acts as a coach, much like in athletics, advising and teaching the political nuts and bolts, giving feedback and rehearsing strategies” (Gehrke, 1990, p.190) .The best way to define a mentor is to experience the mentor/protégé relationship The relationship with the mentor inspires employees to seek new questions, not answers. Loading...The greatest gift a mentor can do for a protégé is offer a “new and whole way of seeing things” (Gehrke, 1990, p.192). Mentoring is a fluid and ever changing concept. There are no rules to define it. The insights, knowledge and services...
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...Peer Tutoring NEA Reviews of the Research on Best Practices in Education Found In: teaching strategies 145 Peer tutoring is a term that’s been used to describe a wide array of tutoring arrangements, but most of the research on its success refers to students working in pairs to help one another learn material or practice an academic task. Peer tutoring works best when students of different ability levels work together (Kunsch, Jitendra, & Sood, 2007). During a peer tutoring assignment it is common for the teacher to have students switch roles partway through so that the tutor becomes the one being tutored. Since explaining a concept to another helps extend one’s own learning, this practice gives students the opportunity to understand better the material being studied. What does the research say about peer tutoring? In reviews of peer tutoring programs, researchers found: * When students participated in the role of reading tutor, improvements in reading achievement occurred * When tutors were explicitly trained in the tutoring process, they were far more effective and the students they were tutoring experienced significant gains in achievement * Most of the students benefited from peer tutoring in some way, but same-age tutors were as effective as cross-age tutors (Burnish, Fuchs & Fuchs, 2005; Topping, 2008) Some benefits of peer tutoring for students include higher academic achievement, improved relationships with peers, improved personal and social development...
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...nations, face a shortage of teachers and candidates from countries like India fulfill their teaching requirements. In fact, the requirement is high not just for teachers, but also for school administrators, teacher's aides, and instructional coordinators. The objective of this paper is to find out the role of the school administration in enhancing the productivity of teachers through the process of mentoring. The word Mentoring has its origin in the Greek Language. “Mentoring--from the Greek word meaning enduring--is defined as a sustained relationship between a youth and an adult” [Dennis, 1993]. It is the process in which successful individuals go out of their normal routine to help others to establish goals and develop the skills to reach those goals. This means that mentoring is more like adopting a person and showing him a path, mostly a tried and tested one by a successful senior. The elder person always provides support, advice and assistance in times of need. There are basically two types of mentoring: they are natural mentoring and planned mentoring. Natural mentoring happens informally as in families. Planned...
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...Role of the Mentor Introduction In line with the preparation of mentors, this assignment will aim to look at mentorship in depth. A variety of aspects around mentorship will be discussed, the first being the emergence of mentorship. This will explore what emphasis was placed on learning prior to Project 2000, and then moving to present day and the different documents that were implemented and the benefit these had on the mentoring process. Several definitions of mentorship will be addressed due to the lack of consensus regarding this. As a result, a clear distinction will be made between the differences of clinical supervision, perceptorship and the mentoring process. This will lead onto the role of the mentor, focusing upon relationships and the different theoretical perspectives around the formation of these. Also being explored in this section will be characteristics needed by the mentor as well as their responsibilities. The following topic to be explored will be learning styles and the environment. A definition of learning will be offered leading onto the learning environment and audits that are in place to ensure placements are up to scratch. This is followed by a description of learning models, looking at research that displays deficits with these. Also being looked at are the individual learning styles and characteristics. The final topic will be assessment; the author will offer a definition of assessment. This will lead onto formative and summative assessment...
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