Are facilitated mentoring programs beneficial? A randomized experimental field study
Egan, Toby Marshall Song, Zhaoli
Egan, Toby Marshall
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Results from a pretest-posttest randomized field experiment study with a control group comparing the impact of high- and low-level-facilitated mentoring programs on new employees' performance and perceptions about their jobs and organization were reported in this paper. Results indicated increases in job satisfaction, organizational commitment, person-organization fit and performance by participants in both mentoring programs with larger gains made by the high-level-facilitated group. These results suggest that a formal mentoring program can have positive effects on employee's work-related attitudes, cognition and behavior with significantly greater gains made by formal mentoring programs with higher levels of facilitation. © 2008.
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Social Sciences, Psychology, Applied, Psychology, formal mentoring, performance, randomized field experiment, mentoring, randomized experimental design, job satisfaction, person-organization fit, organization commitment, job socialization, job performance, PERSON-ORGANIZATION FIT, GENDER-DIFFERENCES, OUTCOMES, EXPERIENCES, COMMITMENT, PROTEGES, WOMEN, WORK, MEN
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JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR
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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
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2008-06-01
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