Variations in Mentorship Across Grade Levels and Career Stages Among Public Management Professionals

IF 3.1 3区 管理学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Nabin Baral, Lee K. Cerveny, Brooke E. Penaluna, Brett B. Roper, Daniel Shively, Shelly Witt
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Mentoring is important to career development and employee morale of public sector employees, but little is known about how employee mentoring needs change over the course of one’s career or at different job classification levels. An online survey about the mentoring needs of 251 aquatic professionals in the USDA Forest Service was conducted in 2019. Quantitative data were analyzed across three federal employee grade levels and four career stages. This study found that grade levels influenced the type of skills employees seek to develop and the attributes associated with successful mentoring. Employees in lower grade positions believed that mentoring would help them to achieve a faster promotion or prepare them for a new position, but they also had less access to mentors and received the least encouragement from their supervisors to seek mentoring. Employees at all career stages believed that mentoring was valuable to their professional growth, while middle- and late-career employees received less encouragement from their supervisor to seek a mentor. Differences in mentorship needs, access, importance, and structures across career stages and grade levels suggest potential areas of future development or intervention to expand the benefits of mentoring to all employees.
公共管理专业人员师徒关系在年级和职业阶段的差异
指导对公共部门员工的职业发展和员工士气很重要,但很少有人知道员工指导在一个人的职业生涯中或在不同的工作分类水平上需要如何变化。2019年,美国农业部林业局对251名水产专业人员的指导需求进行了一项在线调查。定量数据分析了三个联邦雇员等级和四个职业阶段。本研究发现,年级水平影响了员工寻求发展的技能类型和与成功指导相关的属性。职位较低的员工认为师徒关系可以帮助他们更快地晋升或为新职位做准备,但他们接触导师的机会也较少,从上级那里得到的寻求师徒关系的鼓励也最少。所有职业阶段的员工都认为师徒关系对他们的职业发展有价值,而职业中后期的员工从上级那里得到的寻求导师的鼓励较少。不同职业阶段和年级之间的师徒需求、获取途径、重要性和结构的差异,表明了未来发展或干预的潜在领域,以扩大师徒对所有员工的好处。
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