A mentoring model for management in sport and physical education

Several authors (Dreher & Ash, 1990; Fagenson, 1989, 1992; Nunt & Michael, 1983; Kram, 1985; Newby & Heide, 1992; Scandura, 1992) have emphasized the importance of mentoring in facilitating one's progress through a career in management. This paper presents a mentoring model that combines the various factors impinging on mentoring and the associated outcomes in a comprehens ive framework. In the model, a set of antecedent mentor and protege charact eristics, including demographics and traits, lead to certain mentoring func tions, which subsequently result in specified outcomes. The stages of a men toring relationship-initiation, cultivation, and redefinition-are explained . Mentoring functions relate both to career mobility and personal achieveme nt and growth. Ment Mentoring benefits all parties-protege, mentor, and org anization. The model also includes intervening variables that modify the re lationships among antecedents, mentoring stages and functions, and outcome variables. The paper outlines implications of and guidelines for mentoring in sport and physical education organizations.