Alternative mentoring: an HRD key for a rapid changing work environment
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 8 January 2018
Abstract
Purpose
The changing nature of work dynamics demands that managers keep up-to-date in skills, knowledge, and competencies. Besides, nowadays these professionals need to understand the business beyond the frontiers of their own organizations. This phenomenon has led to new forms of alternative mentoring for managers and entrepreneurs, as companies battle for talent in a globalized way. Professional associations, consultancy firms, and other agents are starting to offer mentoring programs in which the mentor and mentee often belong to different organizations or take place within a group.
Design/methodology/approach
The purpose of this study is to present a conceptual model for alternative mentoring for managers. This model is a new approach to mentoring, and it will try to clarify some of the bases of a phenomenon that is increasingly present in the managerial field.
Findings
The paper also suggests some advantages of alternative mentoring when compared to traditional mentoring.
Originality/value
This paper contributes to a better understanding of new forms of alternative mentoring while providing practitioners in the field with a better understanding of key issues for alternative mentoring.
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Citation
Gisbert-Trejo, N., Landeta, J., Albizu, E. and Fernández-Ferrín, P. (2018), "Alternative mentoring: an HRD key for a rapid changing work environment", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-05-2017-0096
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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