Mentoring relationships are a critical career resource for employees in organizations. Mentors are individuals with advanced experience and knowledge who are committed to providing upward support and mobility to their protege's careers. Mentors help t...
Mentoring relationships are a critical career resource for employees in organizations. Mentors are individuals with advanced experience and knowledge who are committed to providing upward support and mobility to their protege's careers. Mentors help their proteges by providing three general types of functions: career development functions, which facilitate the protege's advancement in the organization, and psychosocial functions, which contribute to the protege's personal growth and professional development, and role modelling functions, which demonstrate valued behaviour, attitude and skills that facilitate the protege's achievement of competence, confidence and professional identity.
Three demographic variables examined as controls are, gender, age and education level.
Four common moderators that may be related to mentoring function and outcomes : the type of job (line vs. staff employees), mentor' position, the protege's satisfaction with the mentor and the gender composition of the mentoring relationship are critical factors affecting mentoring outcomes.
Data obtained from 318 employees in hotel organization were used to examine the impact of mentoring relationship on organizational commitment, job satisfaction, job- related stress, career satisfaction and turnover intentions. SPSSWIN 10.0 package were used to analyze the results.
The major empirical results are as follows:
First, the employees who have a mentor showed higer job satisfaction, organizational commitment and career satisfaction than the employees who did not have a mentor.
Second, the mentoring function affected on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, career satifaction and turnover intention. And the controal variables of age was more affected the mentoring outcomes.
Third, Career development funtions was more related organizational outcomes. The relationship between mentoring function and organizational outcomes -job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job-related stress, career satisfaction turnover intentions - turned out to be moderated by the type of job, mentor's position, the protege's satisfaction with the mentor and the gender composition of the mentoring relationship.