THE MENTORING SWITCH: TWO-WAY MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 2ND ROUND

Mentoring: it's a two-way street.

Perceptions within a mentorship program.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of mentees and mentors in a structured mentorship program. DESIGN A qualitative study using focus group methodology in a nonrandom purposive sample was used. SETTING The study was conducted at a level 1 university-affiliated hospital within a 9-bed cardiothoracic intensive care unit. SAMPLE Mentors were identified...

Doctoral Mentoring Program

In this research, the concepts of attitude and personality trait as well as their roles in agents’ decision-making concepts are discussed with regard to job selection and team member selection in multiagent team formation. This research introduces the concept of attitude to guide an agent’s behavior and personality trait to model other agents’ behavior tendency and identify helpfulness of them ...

Doctoral Mentoring Program

Real-world problems contain many forms of uncertainty, but current algorithms for solving sequential decision making problems under uncertainty are limited to small problems due to large resource usage. In my thesis, I study methods to increase the scalability of these approaches such as using memory bounded solutions, sampling or taking advantage of domain structure. I also plan to explore oth...

Mentorship behaviors and mentorship quality associated with formal mentoring programs: closing the gap between research and practice.

Formal mentoring programs continue to gain popularity within organizations despite limited empirical research regarding how these programs should be designed to achieve maximum effectiveness. The present study examined perceived design features of formal mentoring programs and outcomes from both mentor and protégé perspectives. The outcomes examined were career and psychosocial mentoring, role ...