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Journal of Business and Psychology
Published in: Journal of Business and Psychology 4/2019

30-06-2018 | Original Paper

Enacting Effective Mentoring Behaviors: Development and Initial Investigation of the Cuboid of Mentoring

Authors: Kurt Kraiger, Lisa M. Finkelstein, Lebena S. Varghese

Published in: Journal of Business and Psychology | Issue 4/2019

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Abstract

Our understanding of how to maximize the benefits of mentoring relationships for employee development has been limited by a vague understanding of what effective mentors are actually doing and how they are doing it. To begin to remedy this, we conducted one qualitative interview study of well-respected mentors to uncover the breadth and detail of their behaviors, and one quantitative study to see how a subset of these behaviors would be endorsed under two moderating conditions. Our qualitative study consisted of 28 interviews followed by detailed coding and analysis, and yielded a new framework of mentoring behaviors we named the cuboid of mentoring. This framework provides a rich set of behavioral statements that could be mined for research and practice purposes. Our quantitative investigation used a policy-capturing approach to investigate the extent to which experienced mentors endorsed mentoring objectives and behaviors under different conditions. This study showed that mentoring actions are purposeful, and the methodology demonstrates a paradigm for further study of boundary conditions of mentoring behaviors and supports conclusions from the qualitative study regarding how mentors think about the objectives and behaviors of mentoring.
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Footnotes
1
For purposes of this study, we ignore actions. While we are also interested in whether preferences for actions are context-specific, our research design was already very complex just for two faces of the cuboid.
 
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Study 2 was designed prior to completion of study 1, so that objectives and enactments were chosen prior to the creation of all enactments. Thus, some of objectives and enactments in study 2 were revised in the final cuboid. However, because our intent was to study variance in ratings of objectives and enactments in general, and as the chosen objectives and enactments can be considered a subset of the universes of all objectives and enactments, we are comfortable generalizing study findings to a broader objective or enactment level.
 
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Metadata
Title
Enacting Effective Mentoring Behaviors: Development and Initial Investigation of the Cuboid of Mentoring
Authors
Kurt Kraiger
Lisa M. Finkelstein
Lebena S. Varghese
Publication date
30-06-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Business and Psychology / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 0889-3268
Electronic ISSN: 1573-353X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-018-9551-z

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