Dear Dr. Dhani,

Mentoring is a good method of career management by which a junior person takes advice to plan and develop a career from a senior person who has reached top level of that career. If the mentor has a sufficient willingness, and time to give advice, the junior person may be able to learn a lot about career planning and development. He or she can identify key behaviours in achieving career success. Mentors who are dissatisfied with their jobs may not be a good source of encouragement and giving advice to juniors. The HR department can provide mentoring opportunities to persons who need career planning and development. Also it is very important to recognise the service of successful mentors formally and informally.

The attached material may be useful for you.

Dear Henarath H. D. N. P Opatha

thanks for providing valuable literature

Mentoring in the three major areas of academia, the workplace, and youth is usually conducted within disciplinary silos that bring a specific type of mentoring relationship to bear. Therefore, the results of mentoring range widely to include attitudinal, behavioral, career, health-related, motivational, and relational outcomes.

PS: Coaching and Mentoring, available at Article Coaching and Mentoring

One of the challenges with mentoring or coaching is that it can sometimes be difficult to demonstrate added value - sometimes, the outcomes can be distal as opposed to proximal. Two years ago, I did a keynote session at a Mentoring Conference at the University of New Mexico in the States and was quite suprised to find that the majority of the participants were very focused on the programme management aspects of mentoring in their Universities - and trying to demonstrate added value to the university - and were much less interested in debating the process of mentoring itself. My own book Coaching & Mentoring Theory & Practice contains literature from HE mentoring programmes if you are interested in looking at that, as well as case studies from different countries and continents where C & M is applied/ engaged with.

Dear Dhani,

I see you have already finished the article but if you continue with your research you may be interested in these articles on inter-organizational mentoring that we have just published.

This one talks about the characteristics of the mentor-mentor relationship.

http://dx.doi.org/10.6036/8916

This is about the characteristics of the mentoring process.

http://dx.doi.org/10.6036/8646

I hope it helps,

Best Regards,

Nuria

thanks a lot

it will be helpful in my future project

This is about mentorship in scientific publishing domain.

Mentorship Program is a Win-Win for SSP Members

In this post, Martha writes from the point of view of a mentor, and Rachel the mentee...

Mentor

"When I was first approached about applying to the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Mentorship Program to be a mentor, I thought that I was a wholly unsuitable candidate. Who am I to mentor? What knowledge can I possibly impart? How can I positively impact the career of a colleague? It’s true that I have almost two decades of experience in science publishing, and genuinely love my work with editors, reviewers, authors, readers (why do we always leave them off the list?), and colleagues on our scholarly publications. But mentorship?

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Mentee

As someone who has been working in scholarly publishing for ten years now, I realize I am no longer in that window of “early career professional”, yet despite having many wonderful colleagues and supervisors over that decade who I have learned a lot from, I had yet to find someone who I really considered a “mentor.”

I blame no one for this besides myself. Networking always falls second to beating a deadline, and even those of us fortunate enough to form strong bonds with our immediate teammates might feel the need to hold back just slightly on sharing our true thoughts on professional struggles or long-term career goals...

When I was matched with Martha, it immediately became clear that our monthly meetings were the kind of chat where we needed to keep a diligent eye on the clock…because the scheduled hour passed by in a blink. Even though we had different backgrounds in very different disciplines, she in medical publishing and myself transitioning from the arts to applied mathematics, and we were at different points in our careers, we found our common ground very quickly in talking about everything from the current job market to embracing new technology and managing teams of people. Our talks were not just a midday break to network and exchange ideas, but an opportunity for me to further develop some of the soft skills that are so important in our field: emotional intelligence, strong communication, and leadership abilities..."

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/07/guest-post-mentorship-program-is-a-win-win-for-ssp-members/?informz=1&nbd=&nbd_source=informz