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Germain, Marie-Line – Human Resource Development Review, 2011
An attachment theory perspective of mentoring is presented to explain the degree of functionality of a mentor-protege formal match in an organizational setting. By focusing on Bowlby's (1969/1982) behavioral system of attachment and its triarchic taxonomy of secure, avoidant, and anxious-ambivalent attachment, previous conceptualizations are…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Social Theories, Mentors, Human Resources
Germain, Marie-Line; Palamara, Sherry A. – Online Submission, 2007
Solution-focused applications are proposed to assist survivor employees to return to workplace homeostasis after co-workers voluntarily or involuntarily leave the organization. A model for transitional coping is presented as well as a potential case study illustrating the application of the model. Implications for the theory, practice, and…
Descriptors: Coping, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Models