Title: Mentoring in a medical faculty: a chance for organisational learning

Authors: Renate Petersen; Ruth Grümmer; Verena Jendrossek; Wolfgang Sauerwein; Ulrike Schara

Addresses: Science Support Centre, University of Duisburg-Essen, D-45147 Essen, Germany ' Medical Faculty, Department of Anatomy, University Hospital of Essen, D-45147 Essen, Germany ' Medical Faculty, Department of Cell Biology (tumor research), University Hospital of Essen, D-45147 Essen, Germany ' Medical Faculty, Department of Radiation Therapy, University Hospital of Essen, D-45147 Essen, Germany ' Medical Faculty, Hospital for Pediatrics I: Neuropediatrics, University Hospital of Essen, D-45147 Essen, Germany

Abstract: The use of mentoring in academia as a strategy to support individual academic careers has a long tradition. It has been shown that the combination of mentoring as well as training sessions to acquire interdisciplinary key competences and networking activities is suitable for enhancing the individual's skills in various ways. In addition, it is evident that mentoring has a strong link to organisational learning as individual and institutional aims become connected and personal knowledge is transformed into collective knowledge. To date, the impacts of mentoring programs on the organisational development in universities have received little or no attention.

Keywords: universities; postdoctoral researchers; career development; women; medicine; organisational development; learning organisation; human resources; knowledge transfer; networking.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLC.2018.093205

International Journal of Learning and Change, 2018 Vol.10 No.3, pp.198 - 219

Received: 26 Jan 2017
Accepted: 11 Dec 2017
Published online: 13 Jul 2018 *

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