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What Good is Bad Mentorship? Protégé's Perception of Negative Mentoring Experiences


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Scholars have only recently begun to study the darker side of mentoring. Covering virtually unchartered terrain, this paper draws on the social exchange theory and the interdependence theory to study whether negative mentoring experiences can be perceived by proteges as a double-sided coin-with both costs and benefits. Also, this paper examines whether some proteges are more inclined to negative mentoring experiences than the others. Reasons for why this study has important implications for proteges and organizations are suggested, and also future areas of study are demarcated.
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Authors

Payal Kumar
SAGE India Publications Pvt Ltd, India
Stacy Blake-Beard
Simmons College School of Management Boston, MA 02115, United States

Abstract


Scholars have only recently begun to study the darker side of mentoring. Covering virtually unchartered terrain, this paper draws on the social exchange theory and the interdependence theory to study whether negative mentoring experiences can be perceived by proteges as a double-sided coin-with both costs and benefits. Also, this paper examines whether some proteges are more inclined to negative mentoring experiences than the others. Reasons for why this study has important implications for proteges and organizations are suggested, and also future areas of study are demarcated.

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