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Direct linkGermain, 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
Young, Angela M.; Cady, Steven; Foxon, Marguerite J. – Human Resource Development Review, 2006
Issues of gender and mentoring are explored through several theoretical lenses--similarity-attraction paradigm, power dependence, social exchange, biological, and psychological theories--to provide a more comprehensive view of mentoring from a gender-based perspective. Issues related to gender and mentoring presented in past mentoring research and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Mentors, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
