Product 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #585816 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 520 pages

Review
“Allen and Eby’s vision to integrate the fragmented literature on mentoring employees, students, and youth has produced a masterful volume that will be immensely helpful to researchers and practitioners.”
Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Drexel University

“By juxtapositioning parallel articles on youth, academic, and workplace mentoring on a various of topics – theory, practice, outcomes – this handbook spurs researchers in all three areas to broaden their thinking and challenge their current perspectives. I particularly enjoyed thinking about what was unique and what was common across the theoretical pathways through which mentoring benefits the protégé. Each type of mentoring has its unique features, but I found more commonality than I had expected before reading this book. The summary chapters at the end of each section were a particularly useful feature of the book.”
Jean B. Grossman, Princeton University

“This volume is truly ground-breaking in its integrative treatment of heretofore largely distinct bodies of scholarship on mentoring relationships within the diverse contexts of youth programs, higher education, and the workplace. Collectively, the contributions make a compelling case for not only the theoretical, but also the practical value of taking careful stock of the commonalities as well as the uniquenesses that characterize mentoring relationships across differing critical points in the life span. This handbook does a great deal to advance our understanding of mentoring relationships and how best to unlock their potential and, undoubtedly, will stimulate many further important advances in the field.”
David DuBois, University of Illinois at Chicago

“An integrative view of mentoring [is presented] in the last chapter…[it] does a great job in pulling together the three perspectives.”
PsycCritiques

“The definitive work on mentoring … .All contributors draw on existing knowledge to present best practices for each category … .Essential.”
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From the Back Cover
In recent years, interest in the subject of mentoring and its benefits has increased significantly. But with a plethora of research being conducted in three primary areas (youth, student–faculty, and workplace mentoring) little attention has been paid to the potential advantages of looking across these different types of relationships to provide a more unified and comprehensive understanding of mentoring. Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring.

In this volume, leading scholars working in each of the three key areas review the critical literatures from their field. Focusing on today’s most substantial theoretical approaches and methodological issues, this book combines original theory and landmark research with 20 years of accumulated observations to provide rich and incisive analysis. With a final section that presents an integrated perspective on mentoring relationships and projects a future agenda for the field, this volume is the most complete guide to the subject to date, making it an essential resource for all students, researchers, and related professionals who are looking to stay at the forefront of the discipline.

About the Author
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.