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Dissertation
Paying it forward: Mentor's past mentoring experiences influence on performance as a mentor and on protégé behavior
2014
Overview
Previous experience as a protégé has been shown to have a positive relationship with intention to mentor (Allen, 2003; Ragins & Kram, 2007; Ragins & Scandura, 1998). However, research has yet to explore the psychological and attitudinal mechanisms through which the previous experience impacts later performance as a mentor. This gap in the literature is problematic because little is known about what influences a mentor to provide mentoring to their protégés (Allen, 2007) yet investments in organizational mentoring programs are growing (Raabe & Beehr, 2003). In addition, the results of mentoring on protégé performance is mixed. This dissertation attempts to address this gap by developing and testing of theory on how experience as a protégé is related to performance as a mentor through the development of felt obligation to pay it forward as a mentor and perceived costs of mentoring. Then it tests the relationship between individual's performance as a mentor on subsequent protégé performance. Data collected from 88 protégés-turned-mentor, current protégés, and supervisors from a firefighting organization found that protégés do choose to develop feelings of obligation to pay forward the benefits received by serving as a mentor but the relationship between felt obligation to pay it forward and mentor performance was nonsignificant. In addition, the relationship between experience as a protégé and the costs of being a mentor was also support, though the relationship between costs of mentoring and mentor performance was not significant. Further, this dissertation tested the relationship between mentor performance and protégé in-role and organization citizenship behaviors and did not find a significant relationship. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
