What keeps people in mentoring relationships when bad things happen? A field study from the protégé's perspective

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 437-446

  Burk, Hannah G ^a   Eby, Lillian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mentoring; Negative mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149357260     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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