Mentoring Program Design and Implementation * What is mentoring? * Why a formal program? * How do mentoring programs help? * What are keys to program success? * What training do participants need? * What are the first steps to a mentoring program? * Mentoring clients * Where can I learn more? An alternative to formal programs About my work Mary Dingee Fillmore, Director Clients Projects	An Eclectic Bibliography on Mentoring in the Workplace The best brief book on how to be a mentor is Mentoring: A Practical Guide, subtitled How to Develop Successful Mentor Behaviors, by Gordon Shea (Crisp Publications, Menlo Park, CA, 1992. Toll Free number (800) 442-7477). If you have an ongoing interest in mentoring, subscribe to Mentor: To Promote and Encourage the Art and Practice of Mentoring, a newsletter produced at P.O. Box 4382, Overland Park, KS 66204 for $20/year. It applies mostly to mentoring of young people, especially in educational settings, but many articles are useful in the workplace context as well. You may also want to be in touch with the International Mentoring Association, which holds a conference in April in each year and publishes a newsletter at Offices of Conferences and Institutes, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5161; (616) 387-4174. What follows is a selective list of valuable articles about mentoring. There are many, many more, as any good literature search will show, but these are the resources which have the most to offer people who are working with mentoring programs in the workplace context. Except for the real classics, I've eliminated anything before 1990. Atkinson, C. (November 1980). Management development roles: coach, sponsor, and mentor. Personnel Journal, 59, 9l8-21. Bey, T. M., and Holmes, C.T. (1992). Mentoring: Contemporary Principles and Issues. Reston, Virginia: Association of Teacher Educators. Boyles, D. (April 1995). Someone to watch over you. Men's Health, 62-4. Brown, R. (January 1993). Making management fun again: four agencies adopt mentor program. Managers Magazine, 12-15. Burke, R.J. (April 199l). How do mentorships differ from typical supervisory relationships? Psychological Reports, 68, 459-466. Burke, R.J., and McKeen, C.A. (1990). Mentoring in organizations: implications for women. Journal of Business Ethics, 9, 317-332. Burke, R.J. (December 1990). Sex differences and cross sex effects on mentoring: some preliminary data. Psychological Reports, 67, 1011-24. Caravalho, G. and T. Maus (June 1996). Mentoring: philosophy and practice. Public Management, 17-20. Carden, A.D. (April 1990). Mentoring and adult career development: the evolution of a theory. The Counseling Psychologist, 275-299. Center for Sex Equity, Portland, Oregon (undated). Hand in hand: mentoring young women: ideabook for mentors. Newton, Massachusetts: WEAA Publishing Center. Chao, G., P. Walz, and P. Gardner. (Autumn 1992). Formal and informal mentorships: a comparison on mentoring functions and contrast with nonmentored counterparts. Personnel Psychology, 45/3, 619-36. Coley, D. (July 1996). Mentoring two-by-two. Training and Development, 46-48. Colino, S. (May 1995). The mentor myth. Self, 94-95. Dreher, G. F. (October 1990). A comparative study of mentoring among men and women in managerial, professional, and technical positions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 539-546. Dunbar, D. (March 1990). Desperately seeking mentors. Black Enterprise, 20, 53-57. Geiger-Dumond, A., and S. Boyle. (March 1995). Mentoring: a practitioner's guide. Training and Development, 51-54. Get a mentor. (May 1994). Black Enterprise, 44. Gibb, S. and D. Meggison. (1993). Inside corporate mentoring schemes: a new agenda of concerns. Personnel Review, 22/1, 40-54. Gibbons, A. (March 13, 1992). Key issue: Mentoring. Science, 255, 1368-9. Gibbons, A. (November 12, 1993). White men can mentor: help from the majority. Science, 255, 1130-34. Gitler, H. (December 6, 1993). Give yourself a present: mentoring is a gift that keeps on giving. Industry Week, 18. How to prepare for the next fifty years. (January 1996). Ebony, 117-18, 120. Kaye, B., and B. Jacobson (April 1995). Mentoring: a group guide. Training and Development, 23-27. Kaye, B., and B. Jacobson (August 1996). Reframing mentoring. Training and Development, 44-47. Kolbe, K. (October 1994). Avoiding a mentor mismatch. Working Woman, 66-67. Kram, K.E. (April 1985). Improving the mentoring process. Training and Development Journal, 39, 40, 42-43. Kram, K.E. (1985). Mentoring at work: developmental relationships in organizational life. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foreman. Loeb, M. (November 27, 1995). The new mentoring. Fortune, 213. Merriam, S. (Spring 1983). Mentors and protégés: a critical review of the literature. Adult Education Quarterly, 33, 161-73. Mertz, N., et al. (1990). Executive mentoring: myths, issues, strategies. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee. Nadis, S. (August 1, 1996). Internet mentors seek to bring more women into science. Science, 383. Noe, R.A. (1988). Women and mentoring: a review and research agenda. Academy of Management Review, 13, 65-78. Noller, R.B., and Frey, B.R. (1983). Mentoring: an annotated bibliography. Buffalo, New York: Bearly Limited. Ragins, B.R. (January 1989). Barriers to mentoring: the female manager's dilemma. Human Relations, 42, 1-23. Ragins, B.R. (April 1993). Wanted: mentors for women. Personnel Journal, 20. Reid, B.A. (November 1994). Mentorships ensure equal opportunity. Personnel Journal, 122-3. Rogers, B. (August 1992). Mentoring takes a new twist. HR Magazine, 37/8, 48-51. Rothman, H. (April 1993). The boss as mentor. Nation's Business, 66-67. Rowland, M. (September 18, 1994). Many guides along the career path. New York Times, Section 3 page 15. Saltzman, A. (March 25, 1996). Woman Versus Woman: Why aren't more female executives mentoring their junior counterparts? U.S. News and World Report, 50-53. Scher, H. (January 1996). New mentor matchup programs. Working Woman, 17. Serant, C. (December 1991). A guiding hand can help. Black Enterprise, 25. Zey, M.G. (1991). The mentor connection: strategic alliances in corporate life. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers.
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