Session Summary

Session Number:150
Session ID:S20
Session Title:Mentoring in the New Millenium: Advances in Research and Practice
Short Title:Mentoring Workshop
Session Type:Shared Professional Development Workshops
Hotel:Hyatt West
Floor:LL1
Room:Goldcoast
Time:Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Sponsors

CAR  (Jay Mahoney)Mahoneyj@saturn.montclair.edu (973) 655-7476 

General People

Chair Blake-Beard, Stacy  Harvard U. blakest@hugse1.harvard.edu 617-496-4810 
Chair O'Neill, Regina M. Suffolk U. roneill@suffolk.edu (617)-573-8393 
Discussant Kram, Kathy E. Boston U. kekram@bu.edu (617)-353-4269 
Discussant Thomas, David A. Harvard U. dthomas@hbs.edu (617)-495-6327 

Submissions

Helping Behaviors: An Integrative Approach to Mentoring and Social Support 
Presenter O'Neill, Regina M. Suffolk U. roneill@suffolk.edu (617)-573-8393 
Substitutes for Career-Oriented Mentoring 
Presenter Dreher, George F. Indiana U., Bloomington dreher@indiana.edu (812)-855-2763 
Considering Constellations of Developmental Relationships: A Social Networks Perspective 
Presenter Higgins, Monica C. Harvard U. mhiggins@hbs.edu (617)-495-6993 
Formal Mentoring Programs as Strategic Initiatives for Change 
Presenter Blake-Beard, Stacy  Harvard U. blakest@hugse1.harvard.edu 617-496-4810 
Presenter Smith, Christine  Obik mcs@obik.com (609)-683-8333 

Abstract

Mentors possess a special role in the development of individuals' jobs and careers. The purpose of this symposium is to examine how the role and conceptualization of mentor is itself changing to meet the new realities of the way we interact in pluralistic organizations. Kathy Kram will open the symposium by discussing broad trends that are shaping the mentoring field. After Kram's comments, four presentations will be made that address mentoring in the next millenium from a variety of perspectives. A common theme throughout the workshop presentations is an acknowledgement that the way we used to study mentoring presents limitations that may obscure important insights and connections. Each of the four presentations offers a different lens by which to examine multiple evolutionary paths of the mentoring concept. In closing, David Thomas will provide concluding remarks that encourage us to think about how transformation of the study of mentoring necessarily influences how the process is enacted in pluralistic organizations. Thomas will also lead the Question & Answer portion of the symposium. We want to encourage audience members who are examining the mentoring process, either through research or practice, to share their divergent and complementary models on how the concept is transforming.