IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rrpaxx/v19y2014i1p91-106.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The mentor-protégé affinity on mentoring outcomes: the mediating effect of developmental networking

Author

Listed:
  • Seok Eun Kim

Abstract

Despite increasing role of mentoring in public organizations, mentoring and its outcomes have been under-investigated in public management. The purpose of the study is to fill the void by focusing on the mentor-protégé relationship and its effect on mentoring outcomes. Given the complexity of psychological interactions between mentor and protégé, this study examined the influence of the mentor-protégé affinity on mentoring outcomes both directly and indirectly through developmental networking. The results found that the mentor and protégé affinity did not have a direct impact on mentoring outcomes. Instead, its effects were fully mediated by internal and external developmental networking, which were the direct predictors of mentoring outcomes. This implies that finding a good match between mentor and protégé is important, but it is effective to mentoring outcomes only through the establishment of developmental networking.

Suggested Citation

  • Seok Eun Kim, 2014. "The mentor-protégé affinity on mentoring outcomes: the mediating effect of developmental networking," International Review of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 91-106, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rrpaxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:91-106
    DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2014.887368
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/12294659.2014.887368
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/12294659.2014.887368?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Lachance, Lisa & Watson, Crystal & Blais, Daniel & Ungar, Michael & Healey, Gwen & Salaffie, Moriah & Sundar, Purnima & Kelly, Laura & Lagace, Marie Claude, 2019. "Strengthening child and youth programs: A look at inter-organizational mentoring strategies," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 1-1.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rrpaxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:91-106. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RRPA20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.