Why Managers Want to Be Mentors? The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation and the Anticipated Costs of Mentoring for the Propensity to Mentor by Managers in Formal Mentoring in Organizations

Małota Wioletta ()
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Journal of Management and Business Administration. Central Europe, 2019, vol. 27, issue 2, 64-82

Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of the research was to find out the correlation between the motivation and costs of internal or external locus of control and the propensity to mentor. Investment of time and personal energy was regarded as factors with an internal locus of control, whereas a lack of mentee’s achievement, problems caused by a mentee, unhealthy or unfriendly relation, and a risk to be replaced by a mentee were regarded as factors with an external locus of control. In the case of internal factors, their locus of control is the mentor him/herself while, in external factors, their locus is outside of the mentor and lies in a situation or an environment.

Keywords: motivational factors to mentor; cost of mentoring; cognitive patterns of deciding to mentor; manager as mentor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.7206/jmba.ce.2450-7814.253

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