Facilitating Employees Career through Mentoring Methods

Abstract

The success of employees in any organisation today depends more on the type of relationship that an orgnisation establishes to achieve quality of work life. Research shows that individuals who are mentored have an increased likelihood of career success as a result of the targeted developmental support they receive. Mentors serve as trusted and significant advisors, providing a sounding board for day-today issues encountered on the job and alternative perspectives on issues in terms of both problem identification and problem solving. Mentoring can take on different forms. Traditional mentoring involves a one-on-one relationship between a more experienced mentor and his/her mentee, while non-traditional mentoring can take on a variety of forms such as a network of multiple mentors, for example, peers. In this paper author is making an effort to assist human resource department on how in near future employee career development can be addressed through imparting or practicing mentoring methods. By practicing these mentoring methods organizations can facilitate healthy relationship between the levels of management and in turn try to achieve individual goals and organisational goals. More over in the paper author stresses on how an employee in a given organisation can achieve his career objectives through standardizing relationships.

Keywords: Quality of work life, mentoring methods, career development, relationship.