Blackwell Handbook Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144433543X ISBN 13: 9781444335439

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Synopsis

Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring.

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• Provides a complete, multi-disciplinary look at the practice and theory of mentoring and demonstrates its advantages
  
• Brings together, for the first time, expert researchers from the three primary areas of mentoring: workplace, academy, and community
  
• Leading scholars provide critical analysis on important literature concerning theoretical approaches and methodological issues in the field
  
• Final section presents an integrated perspective on mentoring relationships and projects a future agenda for the field

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144433543X
• ISBN 13: 9781444335439
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 520
• Editor: Allen Tammy D.