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The Significance of Mentoring and its Repercussions on the Advancement of Professional, Managerial Women in Pakistan

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  • Shehla Riza Arifeen

    (Shehla Riza Arifeen is Associate Professor at School of Business Administration, Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan. E-mail: shehla.arifeen@gmail.com and shehla@lahoreschool.edu.pk)

Abstract

Mentoring plays an important role in employee growth and advancement. It has been found to be of special significance for the advancement of managerial women in international research. The purpose of this article is to investigate Pakistani female managers’perceptions regarding the significance of mentoring to their career success. The article focuses on the perceptions of managerial women regarding the significance of mentorship to their career success. If women did not think that mentoring was of significance to success, then they would not seek a mentor. If they did not seek out a mentor, they might inadvertently be curtailing their own managerial advancement. The most significant result of this study is that women in the study did not perceive mentoring as important to their advancement. On the other hand, there is an association between women who felt that slow advancement was due to lack of mentor and their managerial advancement.

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  • Shehla Riza Arifeen, 2010. "The Significance of Mentoring and its Repercussions on the Advancement of Professional, Managerial Women in Pakistan," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 11(2), pages 221-238, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:globus:v:11:y:2010:i:2:p:221-238
    DOI: 10.1177/097215091001100207
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