Mentoring in Practice - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions

Mentoring in Practice - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions Synopsis

Mentorship refers to a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. The person in receipt of mentorship may be referred to as a protg (male), a protge (female), an apprentice or, in recent years, a mentee. "e;"e;Mentoring"e;"e; is a process that always involves communication and is relationship based, but its precise definition is elusive. One definition of the many that have been proposed, is 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 (the protg)"e;"e;. This book is your one-stop, ultimate resource for Mentoring in Practice. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links covering all aspects of Mentoring in Practice: Mentor, Mentorship, E-mentoring, Human resource management, OBHR, Organizational studies, 360-degree feedback, Abilene paradox, Absorptive capacity, Academy of Management, Achievement Motivation Inventory, Action alert, Action item, Affective Events Theory, Agile leadership, Appreciative inquiry, Association of Management Consulting Firms, Attendance management, Autonomous work group, Awayday, Charles Bedaux, Behavioral systems analysis, Boreout, Budget-maximizing model, Bullying in medicine, Bureaucracy, Buying center, Cadre, Canadian Council of Human Resources Associations (CCHRA), Candydate jobs, Career development, Ctenon Worldwide Executive Search, Catfish effect, CEO succession, Channel architecture, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, CHRP (Designation), CHRP (HR Designation), Civic Virtue (Organizational Citizenship Behavior Dimension), Closed shop, Co-coaching, Co-determination, Coaching, Cognitive complexity, Fannia Cohn, Collaboration, Collaborative leadership, Collaborative method, Collective bargaining, Committee, Communication Quotient, Communications management, Community management, Competence (human resources), Conscious enterprise, Consensus decision-making, Consensus-seeking decision-making, Contingency theory, Continuous Partial Attention, Cooperation, Cooperative principle, David Cooperrider, Corporate Grapevine, Counseling statements in the United States, Counterproductive norms, Counterproductive work behavior, Cross-cultural capital, Cross-functional team, Cultural intelligence, Decentralization, Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System, Daniel R. Denison, Digital era governance, Distributed development, Distributive writing, Duty of fair representation, Emotional labor, Employee development, Employee engagement, Employee research, Employers' organization, Employment testing, Enterprise architecture, Executive pay, Facilitation (business), Facilitator, Federation of Belgian Enterprises, Fiedler contingency model, Tim Field, Force field analysis, Formal organization, Formula for Change, Alan Fox, Frustration, Functional leadership model, Gainful employment, Girl Talk Inc., Goal setting, Goat rodeo, Group behaviour, Group conflict, Group development, Group process consultation, Groupthink...and much moreThis book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Mentoring in Practice. It reduces the risk of your time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Mentoring in Practice with the objectivity of experienced professionals. Unique, authoritative, and wide-ranging, it offers practical and strategic advice for managers, business owners and students worldwide.

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