Abstract
Team-level career mentoring by supervisors is conceptualized as mentoring that provides career support for all team members. A new model of mentoring and individual team-source learning is presented. Data from 192 individuals in 37 intact work groups in the banking industry were used to examine how intra-group processes might influence the team mentoring process. Team-level leader-member exchange, peer mentoring, and proactive member behavior were examined for their influence on team-level career mentoring by supervisors. Our results suggest that aspects of the team context (represented by mean leader-member exchange and mean peer mentoring) influenced team-level career mentoring. Team-level career mentoring (TCM) had a positive effect on individual team-source learning and had mediating effects on the relationships between the team contextual factors and individual team-source learning. The implications of this research for studying supervisory team-level career mentoring are discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1635-1666 |
Number of pages | 32 |
Journal | Human Relations |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2009 |
Keywords
- Career
- Context
- Leader
- Learning
- Mentor
- Personnel training/development
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management of Technology and Innovation
- Strategy and Management
- Social Sciences(all)