NIRMA UNIVERSITY
MENTORING
ASSIGNMENT 2
ETHICS AND VALUES
10/5/2015
MADE BY: PREET SARAIYA(14BCH057)
ETHICAL VALUES : MENTORING
Mentoring is the act of providing resources to encourage healthy and proper growth.
Mentoring can involve relationships ranging from a casual offer of advice up to an apprentice
relationship. Mentoring implicitly involves participation of both the mentor and the mentee.
Both should have realistic and well understood goals for timing and product of the
relationship. The ethics of one-on-one mentoring involves how the mentoring expectations
are formulated and performed.
Working in a mentoring atmosphere can be as important as the availability of one-on-one
help. Group leaders, from department
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Student: Yes, I have looked into similar work. I think it is a good problem. Do you think
there is a better problem for me to work on?
Professor: I’ll have to get back to you on that. Talk to you in a few weeks.
Student: (Muttering under breath) That’s what you said months ago.
The point to be established is whether or not the faculty member is serious about supervising
your thesis research. Opening a discussion of possible thesis topics is one way of assessing
the situation. Either the discussion will lead to a narrowing of thesis possibilities, or it will
become clear that no thesis will result. Either way you are ahead, because you will not have
Mentoring has received considerable coverage in recent decades and this is evident by the
proliferation of research and popular literature available to the reader. It has been hailed as an
important human resource management strategy, a career tool, and a workplace learning
activity for men, women and minority groups in a variety of organisational settings such as
hospitals, large corporations, schools, universities and government departments. In this paper
we review the literature on this ubiquitous yet elusive concept. We begin by exploring what
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In particular, we believe that
human resource managers must be aware that mentoring is not an organisational panacea.
There are concerns regarding the outcomes of mentoring, but it is our opinion that these can
be minimised by careful implementation planning. Mentoring is a complex and sensitive
organisational process and there is little doubt it can be a destructive force for organisations,
the mentors and the mentees. The simple implication of this paper is that organisations should
view mentoring as a potentially beneficial process that requires careful long term planning
and skilful human resource leadership. It is important to stress that there are many models of
mentoring and that implementing a professional or formal mentoring program does not imply
that procedures such as informal mentoring or peer mentoring should not be included in an
overall human resources policy. Carden (1990) sees mentoring as one of a variety of