Book description
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.
- 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
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.
