• DOI:10.1177/0095399707304119
Corpus ID: 143989012

Toward a Useful Theory of Mentoring

@article{Bozeman2007TowardAU,
  title={Toward a Useful Theory of Mentoring},
  author={B. Bozeman and Mary K. Feeney},
  journal={Administration & Society},
  year={2007},
  volume={39},
  pages={719 - 739}
}

B. Bozeman, Mary K. Feeney

Published 2007

Psychology

Administration & Society

In this review and critique of mentoring theory and research, the authors identify persistent problems in the development of mentoring theory. Their conceptual analysis highlights these problems with a “thought experiment” illustrating the inability of mentoring theory and research to resolve certain fundamental issues, the resolution of which is a prerequisite for the advancement of explanatory theory. They conclude with ideas about demarcating “mentoring” from the sometimes confounding… CONTINUE READING

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