Are facilitated mentoring programs beneficial? A randomized experimental field study

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-362

  Egan, Toby Marshall ^a   Song, Zhaoli ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Formal mentoring; Job performance; Job satisfaction; Job socialization; Mentoring; Organization commitment; Performance; Person organization fit; Randomized experimental design; Randomized field experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649096498     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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