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Humble Mentoring: Understanding Humility's Impact on Mentoring Relationships and Career Outcomes

van Esch, Chantal
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491580376321883

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Organizational Behavior.
In order to better understand the impact of disclosing weaknesses, this dissertation introduces the idea of humble mentorship, based on Relational Cultural Theory and Humble Leadership. Humble mentorship is a mentoring relationship in which both protege and mentor accept the humble leadership traits of teachability, admitting mistakes and limitations, and acknowledging others strengths, in which case the central relationship paradox is avoided and both protege and mentor are in a connected relationship. After exploratory interviews to better understand the construct, a quantitative survey design was implemented in a United States based IT consultancy company. The results from 201 IT professionals indicated that humility of both the protege and mentor led to stronger relational mentoring and increased mentoring functions (specifically career support, psychosocial support, and role-modeling). Relational mentoring and mentoring functions had a positive impact on psychological capital and job satisfaction. In this sample gender was not found to be a significant moderator between humility and relational mentoring, this is possibly due to The IT Company itself, the male and millennial dominated field, or relational mentoring,. The main contributions of the dissertation are in applying the concept of expressed humility to the mentoring literature, further understanding of the contingencies of humility, and validation of the Relational Mentoring Index in a 21st century context.
Diana Bilimoria (Committee Member)
Coen Corinne (Committee Member)
Fry Ron (Committee Member)
Burant Chris (Committee Member)
Weinberg Frankie (Committee Member)
112 p.
Organizational Behavior
Mentoring, Humility, Developmental Relationships, Relational Cultural Theory, Psychological Capital

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  • van Esch, C. (2017). Humble Mentoring: Understanding Humility's Impact on Mentoring Relationships and Career Outcomes [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491580376321883

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • van Esch, Chantal. Humble Mentoring: Understanding Humility's Impact on Mentoring Relationships and Career Outcomes . 2017. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491580376321883.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • van Esch, Chantal. "Humble Mentoring: Understanding Humility's Impact on Mentoring Relationships and Career Outcomes ." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491580376321883

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