Browsing by Subject "inlärning och utveckling i arbetslivet"

During the last decades mentoring has increased in popularity and today it's common with many different mentoring programs in the working life. The aim with this study is to map and illustrate factors that lead to an effective mentoring relationship and to an successful mentoring according to the protégé. Also the expectations for the mentoring of the protégés in this study will be taken into account. In addition, the protégés experience on how mentoring can support learning and development in working life will be mapped. Informants in this study were protégés that participated in an formal mentoring program organized at their workplace and experienced mentoring as a success. Data was collected with help of semi structured interviews with seven persons. An interview guide was used as support during the interviews and material from the interviews were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. The results shows that protégés goals and expectations vary from personal to concretely work related. Most of participants experienced that the goals and expectations were guided to a more personal level during the mentoring process. Factors influencing an effective mentoring relationship was mainly open communication and accessibility, well defined goals and challenges, a caring personal relationship, mutual respect and trust and exchange of knowledge. Also motivation and willingness to participate are important elements. Other factors that influence the mentoring success is back-up from organization, set of mentoring program and other components. The study show that mentoring can support protégés working life development by developing working skills, the working identity, thinking processes and ability to reflexion and self awareness.