A meta-analytic investigation of gender differences in mentoring

Journal of Management

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 537-554

  O'Brien, Kimberly E ^a   Biga, Andrew ^b   Kessler, Stacey R ^c   Allen, Tammy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Procter and Gamble ^*  (United States)

^c MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mentor; Mentoring functions; Prot g

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249129390     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206308318619     Document Type: Article

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