Naturally Occurring Mentoring Relationships Involving Workplace Employees

The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 139-158

  Dougherty, Thomas W ^a   Turban, Daniel B ^a   Haggard, Dana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Career expectations; Employees; Mentoring research; Prot g s; Workplace relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849091686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470691960.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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