By Belle Rose Ragins (ed.), Kathy E. Kram (ed.)

"This instruction manual is striking in that it offers a complete and finely nuanced account of the varied methods that researchers, theorists,and practitioners have taken to mentoring through incorporating insights of someof the main widely recognized and revered researchers in careers and in mentoring...This instruction manual is poised to develop into a vintage in profession and mentoring literature with its power long term heuristic usefulness in producing new intersections between idea, study, and practice."
—Rebecca L. Weiler, Suzy D’Enbeau, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University

"This guide is poised to turn into a vintage in occupation and mentoring literature with its strength long term heuristic usefulness in producing new intersections between theory,research, and practice...it is encouraging that quite a bit of the instruction manual establishes grounds for destiny communique examine and relates on to present traits in organizational and managerial communication."
—MANAGEMENT conversation QUARTERLY

"Ragins and Kram—both students whose paintings ignited the sphere of mentoring a few twenty years in the past and has guided it ever since—have teamed as much as produce this lucid and available compendium of study and idea on mentoring relationships at paintings. Bringing jointly a magnificent staff of students, this quantity deals a finished overview of the present nation of information approximately mentoring, in addition to an formidable, theory-driven, practice-oriented schedule for destiny learn. This publication is an important source and will now not be extra well timed as organizational students and practitioners alike grapple with the demanding situations of constructing an ever extra diversified group to fulfill the desires of an ever extra worldwide and technologically subtle organizational world.”
—Robin Ely, Harvard company School

“The so much entire [reference] in mentoring. the main seminal thinkers and the main major number of essays in print. A needs to learn for everybody eager about progress and learning.”
—Warren Bennis, University of Southern California

“This e-book is intensely well timed. After 20 years of study and debate, it presents a definitive consultant to the examine and perform of mentoring. In a global of looming expertise shortages, it's going to turn out a useful source to reflective practitioners and organizational students alike. The authors may be congratulated for delivering this journey de strength of state of the art examine and perform on mentoring whereas additionally charting new territories for destiny investigation.”
—Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD

“From of the top theorists within the box of mentoring comes a unprecedented quantity. Ragins and Kram have guided a stellar team of authors towards new heights in idea and perform. The publication covers the entire bases and offers a number of perspectives–some solely new—that promise to be generative of cutting edge learn and perform. nobody attracted to mentoring, neither pupil nor practitioner, can find the money for to disregard this outstanding book.”
—Lotte Bailyn, MIT Sloan university of Management

“The explosion of curiosity in place of work mentoring this present day cries out for extra powerful study frameworks in addition to new and higher useful functions. This terrific guide closes that hole by means of bringing jointly prime students and practitioners for a complete review of this fast-growing phenomenon. Researchers, scholars, human assets execs and working towards managers alike–indeed, somebody who has been a mentor or mentee–will locate this groundbreaking quantity an essential companion.”
—John Alexander, Former President and Senior consultant, middle for inventive Leadership

The guide of Mentoring at paintings: idea, examine, and Practice brings jointly the top students within the box which will craft the definitive reference publication on place of work mentoring. This cutting-edge advisor connects current wisdom to state of the art thought, learn instructions, and perform ideas to generate the “must-have” source for mentoring theorists, researchers, and practitioners. Editors Belle Rose Ragins and Kathy E. Kram tackle key debates and concerns and supply a theory-driven highway map to lead destiny examine and perform within the box of mentoring.

Key gains

• Takes a three-pronged method: equipped into 3 parts—Research, idea, and perform. Breaks new theoretical flooring in a time of switch: the idea part extends the theoretical horizon via supplying views throughout comparable disciplines that allows you to increase, liven up, and construct new mentorship idea.
• Makes feel of study and making plans new instructions: The study half brings jointly prime students for the twin function of chronicling the present kingdom of analysis within the box of mentoring and settling on vital new parts of analysis.
• Builds bridges among study and perform: The perform half brings jointly top mentoring practitioners to attach idea and learn to perform, in particular, addressing how mentoring has replaced during the last two decades.
• Offers coherence inside and throughout every one part: first and foremost of every half, the editors offer a roadmap of the most themes—how they relate to each other, in addition to to different elements of the e-book.
• Examines the influence of the altering panorama of careers: Framed in the new profession panorama, the e-book comprises alterations in variety, organizational constitution, and technology.

Intended Audience this entire and accomplished quantity defines the present nation of the sphere, making it the final word source for students, scholars, and practitioners pursuing learn on mentoring and similar phenomena. it may possibly even be used as a middle or supplementary textual content in graduate classes on mentoring within the fields of commercial & administration, commercial & organizational psychology, schooling, social paintings, healthiness care, nursing, communique, sociology, and felony justice.