What Career Benefits can Mentoring Truly Bring for Protege? Evidence from Meta-Analysis

摘要

Mentoring has been regarded as an effective approach to develop human resources in organizations, for its close association with the career development and growth of both mentor and protege. Mentoring is conducive to benefit newcomers or proteges' career via providing vocational support, psychosocial support and role modeling. Results from a meta-analysis of 83 independent samples (N=13,614) documented in the relevant empirical literatures revealed that mentoring was positively related to job satisfaction, organizational commitment, task performance, OCB, career prospects, career satisfaction, but turnover. Moreover, the relationship between mentoring and compensation was not so robust. Finally, contributions and limitations were also discussed.