Mentoring Among Scientists: Implications of Interpersonal Relationships within a Formal Mentoring Program
Description/Abstract
Mentoring is an established strategy for learning that has its root in antiquity. Most, if not all, successful scientists and engineers had an effective mentor at some point in their career. In the context of scientists and engineers, mentoring has been undefined. Reports addressing critical concerns regarding the future of science and engineering in the U.S. mention the practice of mentoring a priori, leaving organizations without guidance in its application. Preliminary results from this study imply that formal mentoring can be effective when properly defined and operationalized. Recognizing the uniqueness of the individual in a symbiotic mentor-protégé relationship significantly influences a protégé’s learning experience which carries repercussions into their career intentions. The mentor-protégé relationship is a key factor in succession planning and preserving and disseminating critical information and tacit knowledge essential to the development of leadership in the science and technological industry.
| Creator/Author: | Bryan D. Maughan |
|---|---|
| Publication Date: | 2006 Nov 01 |
| OSTI Identifier: | OSTI ID: 911875 |
| Report Number(s): | INL/CON-06-11721 |
| DOE Contract Number: | DE-AC07-99ID-13727 |
| Other Number(s): | TRN: US200801%%325 |
| Resource Type: | Conference |
| Resource Relation: | Conference: Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo,Albuquerque, NM,11/12/2006,11/16/2006 |
| Research Org: | Idaho National Laboratory (INL) |
| Sponsoring Org: | USDOE |
| Subject: | 99 - GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; ENGINEERS; LEARNING; PLANNING |
| Related Subject: | attrition; future generation; human resources; knowledge management; learning; mentoring; recruiting; retaining; succession planning; teaching |
| Country of Publication: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Update Date: | 2009 Aug 27 |
Full Text
? K
View Full Text
or Access Individual Pages
search, view and/or download individual pages
Cite
Select a citation type to copy/paste or download the reference.
