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Mentoring in supervisor-subordinate dyads: Antecedents, consequences, and test of a mediation model of mentorship

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Richard, Orlando C.
Ismail, Kiran M.
Bhuian, Shahid N.
Taylor, Edward C.
Abstract

We develop a framework to look at mentoring as a consequence of employees' values and beliefs, as well as to explore its role in determining the employees' attitudes towards their organizations. Based on social exchange theory, we hypothesize that employees' levels of individualism, collectivism, and trust in supervisor influence the level of supervisory mentoring received. Moreover, mentoring influences employees' affective commitment and intention to quit, as well as mediates the relationships between the proposed antecedents and outcomes. Using structural equation modeling to examine these relationships, we find that within supervisor-subordinate dyads, subordinates report more mentoring when they have collectivist personal values and trust their supervisor. Additionally, more mentoring is positively related to subordinates' affective commitment towards the organizations and negatively related to their intention to quit. We also find that mentoring mediate the relationship between both collectivism values and trust in supervisors and both organizational commitment and intention to quit.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Journal of Business Research.

Volume (Year): 62 (2009)
Issue (Month): 11 (November)
Pages: 1110-1118
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Keywords: Mentoring Social exchange Trust Organizational commitment Dyadic relationships;

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