E-mentoring as a HRD intervention: an exploratory action research study within an International Professional Mentoring Scheme

Mentoring Distance Learners : An Action Research Study

Despite the recognized need for appropriate management of intellectual capital [Wriston, 1992] the majority of organizations face the enormous challenge of supporting their employees' thirst for expanding their skill-base. As a result, universities and organizations are currently collaborating to implement successful training and learning programmes in order to develop employee skills and knowl...

Ethics and Usability Mentoring – an Exploratory Study

It is still difficult to achieve the ideas of user centred systems design in organisations, and we have seen that usability is given low priority in in-house systems development. In this context, usability mentoring has the potential of being a powerful method for achieving user-centred systems design. However, when applying a method such as usability mentoring one has to consider the ethical c...

Virtual Mentoring and HRD

HeLIN Pilot Mentoring Scheme

THE HEALTH CARE LIBRARIES FACILITATES, UNIT COORDINATES, and promotes continuing personal development for all staff in the Health Libraries and Information Network (HeLIN) of the Oxford Deanery (UK). It supports the development of a culture of lifelong learning and recognizes that CPD should help deliver organizational objectives, as well as enabling all staff to expand and fulfill their potent...

Mentoring for developing employees’ professional practices: An educationalist’s perspective

This literature review provides a perspective for mentoring employees’ professional practices. Five mentoring factors have been identified from the literature that may have applications for induction and recruitment of employees (mentees). These mentoring factors (namely, personal attributes, system requirements, professional knowledge, modelling, and feedback) may have associated attributes an...