The mentor-protégé affinity on mentoring outcomes: the mediating effect of developmental networking

Seok Eun Kim

International Review of Public Administration, 2014, vol. 19, issue 1, 91-106

Abstract: Despite increasing role of mentoring in public organizations, mentoring and its outcomes have been under-investigated in public management. The purpose of the study is to fill the void by focusing on the mentor-protégé relationship and its effect on mentoring outcomes. Given the complexity of psychological interactions between mentor and protégé, this study examined the influence of the mentor-protégé affinity on mentoring outcomes both directly and indirectly through developmental networking. The results found that the mentor and protégé affinity did not have a direct impact on mentoring outcomes. Instead, its effects were fully mediated by internal and external developmental networking, which were the direct predictors of mentoring outcomes. This implies that finding a good match between mentor and protégé is important, but it is effective to mentoring outcomes only through the establishment of developmental networking.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2014.887368

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