This article reviews various mentoring roles, organizational attitudes toward mentoring, different kinds of mentors, mentoring functions, stages of mentoring, and the benefits and risks of mentoring. In addition, research done by the authors to discover the relationship between career success and mentoring is described. Finally, the use of TA to improve mentoring relationships, particularly with regard to anger and the disowning of the self, is considered.
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