Article Review on Mentoring in the Workplace

IntroductionMentoring and its application is very more the vogue now in corporate America. It is a strategy employed by companies or institutions to recruit professionalism and the increased transfer of learning and building of skills from the more adept and/or experienced to the junior or neophyte employee. It is also a way of amend retention rate within a company.DiscussionA adopt conducted by the TWA, a publication of the Society of the petroleum Engineers, revealed that in the integrated major oil companies, 36% responded on the subject matter they posed on mentoring. Another which participated came from the service and/or manufacturing companies (28%). The article intimately presented the essence of mentoring, what an opinionl mentor is like, and the prevalence of the confide in organizations as well as the intercommunicate status this process would attain in the incoming (Tealdi and Donachie, 2007).An excellently done study, the article mentions the many-faceted conc ept that mentoring is today. It was commensurate to give the reader a balanced idea whether this practice has done well in basis of its success in the application. For instance, the finding that the formers other companies mentoring programme did not do well was due to a fragmented approach.It is remarkable that the responses of employees on their companys mentoring program range from satisfaction to what the editors say as demotivated mentors and mentees. This has shown that planning is crucial to its successful carrying into action. The successful ones had their centering on the technical advice and c atomic number 18er development that are the most important issues for employees and their dream for advancement. This is a sell point for those institutions which are hesitant in their implementation (Tealdi and Donachie, 2007).The article also mentioned the nuances of the practice in scathe of the different schemes each company that participated in the stick to might utiliz e. This means that mentoring can be full-dress or informal, and it can be monitored or with negligible attention at all. However, as mentioned, a deliberate study on method, conceptual frame operate, system of observe and evaluation might be an effective forwardness before the practice starts (Tealdi and Donachie, 2007).I think it will work in my workplace. Although, not as formally introduced and salutary as many other companies had done already, a few other co-workers had started an informal working birth as mentor and mentee. This must be the reason that renewed interest and enthusiasm permeates the workplace milieu since its informal inception. I guess it will even out work well if my organizations leading will institutionalize the program.ReferenceTealdi, Loris, John Donachie, Forum editors. Mentoring today for tomorrow The Way Ahead 2003 2007. Accessed June 25, 2007