Mentoring: the unexamined link in strategic human capital management Online publication date: Sun, 03-Jun-2007
by Heather Getha-Taylor, Jeffrey L. Brudney
International Journal of Learning and Change (IJLC), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2006
Abstract: Although some of the largest US federal organisations sponsor mentoring programmes, including the Coast Guard, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Health and Human Services, mentoring has received comparatively little attention as an approach to address strategic human capital management goals. Drawing upon mentoring programme documents, government reports, scholarly literature, and interviews with senior executives and mentoring professionals, this article examines mentoring from this larger context. We find that mentoring programmes have traditionally focused on transferring knowledge from senior to junior levels. The continued development of senior executives through mentoring has largely been ignored in public administration research. This article not only considers the potential impact of traditional forms of mentoring on achieving strategic human capital goals, but also presents a 'life cycle' or continuum of mentoring and elaborates its implications for senior level executives in the federal service.
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