Tammy D. Allen / Lillian T. Eby

Gebundenes Buch

The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring

A Multiple Perspectives Approach

Herausgeber: Allen, Tammy D; Eby, Lillian T

Beschreibung

In recent years, interest in the subject of mentoring and its benefits has increased significantly. But with a plethora of research being conducted in three primary areas (youth, student-faculty, and workplace mentoring) little attention has been paid to the potential advantages of looking across these different types of relationships to provide a more unified and comprehensive understanding of mentoring. Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring. In this volume, leading scholars working in each of the three key areas review the critical literatures from their field. Focusing on today's most substantial theoretical approaches and methodological issues, this book combines original theory and landmark research with 20 years of accumulated observations to provide rich and incisive analysis. With a final section that presents an integrated perspective on mentoring relationships and projects a future agenda for the field, this volume is the most complete guide to the subject to date, making it an essential resource for all students, researchers, and related professionals who are looking to stay at the forefront of the discipline.

Autor

Tammy D. Allen is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. Her research interests include mentoring relationships, work-family issues, organizational citizenship behavior, and occupational health psychology. Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. Lillian T. Eby is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on workplace mentoring, job-related relocation, career success, the work-family interface, and gender issues in organizations. She has published over 50 research articles and book chapters and her work appears in such outlets as Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 182mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1048g
• ISBN-13: 9781405133739
• ISBN-10: 1405133732
• Artikelnr.: 22755146

Rezensionen

"I have no doubt that those interested in youth mentoring wouldfind the specific chapters useful. It is then an extra bonus tohave available similarly fine articles on mentoring of students inacademia and mentoring in the workplace." (The PreventionResearcher, 1 December 2011)

"This book provides up-to-date review and synthesis of researchand theory on the antecedents, correlates, and consequences ofmentoring. It also provides critical analyses of the literature andthen reflection on the appraisals. This account organizes andcritiques the mentoring literature in a way that identifies keyissues and prompts heuristic hypotheses." (Neopoprealism Journal,24 November 2011)

"An integrative view of mentoring [is presented] in the

lastchapter...[it] does a great job in pulling together the threeperspectives." (PsycCritiques)

"The definitive work on mentoring.... All contributors draw onexisting knowledge to present best practices for each category....Essential." (Choice)"Allen and Eby's vision to integrate the fragmented literature onmentoring employees, students, and youth has produced a masterfulvolume that will be immensely helpful to researchers andpractitioners."
--Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Drexel University

"By juxtapositioning parallel articles on youth, academic, andworkplace mentoring on a various of topics - theory,practice, outcomes - this handbook spurs researchers in allthree areas to broaden their thinking and challenge their currentperspectives. I particularly enjoyed thinking about what was uniqueand what was common across the theoretical pathways through whichmentoring benefits the protégé. Each type of mentoringhas its unique features, but I found more commonality than I hadexpected before reading this book. The summary chapters at the endof each section were a particularly useful feature of thebook."
--Jean B. Grossman, Princeton University

"This volume is truly ground-breaking in its integrativetreatment of heretofore largely distinct bodies of scholarship onmentoring relationships within the diverse contexts of youthprograms, higher education, and the workplace. Collectively, thecontributions make a compelling case for not only the theoretical,but also the practical value of taking careful stock of thecommonalities as well as the uniquenesses that characterizementoring relationships across differing critical points in thelife span. This handbook does a great deal to advance ourunderstanding of mentoring relationships and how best to unlocktheir potential and, undoubtedly, will stimulate many furtherimportant advances in the field."
--David DuBois, University of Illinois at Chicago