Toward a Useful Theory of Mentoring

By Barry Bozeman, Mary K. Feeney. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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Informal Mentoring at Work: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research (2016, unknown): “Mentoring research shows an ‘impatience with troublesome conceptual and analytical problems’ (Bozeman and Feeney 2007, p. 720), and tends to neglect more fundamental questions.”
A Conceptual Analysis of Perspective Taking in Support of Socioscientific Reasoning (2019, methodology): “Clarity in definition is also necessary for developing theories and frameworks around that construct (Bozeman & Feeney, 2007).”
Can Peer Mentors Improve First-Year Experiences of University Students? (2017, background): “…peer-mentoring program is an intervention strategy that pairs one or more students (i.e., mentees) with a more experienced student (i.e., peer mentor; Terrion & Leonard, 2007) who provides both practical guidance and social support to the mentee(s) (Bozeman & Feeney, 2007; Nora & Crisp, 2007).”
The Impact of Career Mentoring and Psychosocial Mentoring on Affective Organizational Commitment, Job Involvement, and Turnover Intention (2013, methodology): “We utilize the definition offered by Bozeman and Feeney (2007) whereby mentoring “is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development” (p. 731).”
The Mentoring Relationship Challenges Scale: The impact of mentoring stage, type, and gender (2011, background): “Kram's original conceptualization is still widely accepted and frequently citedmore than 20 years later (Bozeman & Feeny, 2007).”
Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring (2012, methodology): “After over 20 years of group mentoring research and theory, Bozeman and Feeney (2007) provided an analysis of the theories as well as a critique.”