Nachwuchsförderung durch Mentoring - eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme
Titelübersetzung:Promotion of junior staff through mentoring - a critical review
Autor/in:
Fellenberg, Franziska
Quelle: Gruppendynamik und Organisationsberatung : Zeitschrift für angewandte Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 38 (2007) H. 4, S. 423-438
Inhalt: "Trotz einer Vielzahl von Veröffentlichungen zum Thema 'Mentoring' fehlt noch immer eine allgemein anerkannte Definition dieses Begriffs. In diesem Artikel werden verschiedene Auffassungen von Mentoring neben einander gestellt und einer kritischen Analyse unterzogen. Betrachtet werden a) unterschiedliche Varianten von Mentoringbeziehungen, b) unterschiedliche Funktionen von Mentoring und c) Prädiktoren effektiven Mentorings. Dabei wird insbesondere die Wandlung des Mentoringbegriffs von einer One-to-one-Beziehung zu einem unterstützenden Netzwerk diskutiert sowie diverse Ansätze, die die Funktionen von Mentoring aus theoretischer Perspektive beleuchten. Schließlich werden empirische Ergebnisse zur Wirksamkeit von Mentoring dargestellt und es wird resümiert, welche Faktoren positive oder negative Verläufe von Mentoringbeziehungen begünstigen. Der Aufsatz schließt mit Schlussfolgerungen für die weitere Evaluationsforschung." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "Despite a high number of publications about mentoring there is still a lack of an overall accepted definition for this conception. In this paper different views of mentoring are compared and are critically analysed. Kinds of mentoring relationships, theoretical approaches concerning mentoring functions and relevant predictors of mentoring outcome are considered. Especially the change of the mentoring concept from a one-to-one-relationship to a supportive network is discussed and several approaches to highlight mentoring from a theoretical perspective are described. Finally a survey of empirical results is given about the effectiveness of mentoring and determinants are resumed which support a positive or negative mentoring outcome. The paper finishes with conclusions for further research." (author's abstract)
Theater as a community-building strategy for women in engineering : theory and practice
Autor/in:
Chesler, Naomi C.; Chesler, Mark A.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 11 (2005) No. 1, S. 83-96
Inhalt: "Previously, the authors have suggested that peer mentoring through a caring community would improve the quality of life for female faculty members in engineering and could have a positive effect on retention and career advancement. Here, the authors present the background psychosocial literature for choosing participatory theater as a strategy to develop a caring community and report on a pilot study in which participatory theater activities were used within a workshop format for untenured female faculty members in engineering. The authors identify the key differences between participatory theater and other strategies for community building that may enhance participants' sense of commonality and the strength and utility of their community as a mentoring and support mechanism and discuss the ways in which these efforts could have a broader, longer term impact." (author's abstract)