Can Protégés be Successfully Socialized Without Socialized Mentors?: A Close Look at Mentorship Formality

Journal of Career Development

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 408-423

  Yang, Chun Chi ^a   Hu, Changya ^b   Baranik, Lisa E ^c   Lin, Chia Yu ^a  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

formal mentoring; informal mentoring; mentoring functions; social cognitive career theory; socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883523461     PISSN: 08948453     EISSN: 15560856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894845312467499     Document Type: Article

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