Are Mentor Relationships Helping Organizations? An Exploration of Developing Mentee-Mentor-Organizational Identifications Using Turning Point Analysis.

Bullis, Connie; Bach, Betsy Wackernagel

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Publication Date: 1989

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Are Mentor Relationships Helping Organizations? An Exploration of Developing Mentee-Mentor-Organizational Identifications Using Turning Point Analysis.

Bullis, Connie; Bach, Betsy Wackernagel

Communication Quarterly, v37 n3 p199-213 Sum 1989

Examines developing mentor relationships and the association between mentor relationships and individual-organizational relationships. Indicates that many turning points occur later than proposed in broad-phase models of mentor relationship development. Finds that mentor relationships should not be assumed to benefit organizations. (SR)

Descriptors: Communication Research, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship, Mentors, Organizational Theories, Student School Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship

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