Assessing mentoring in organizations: an evaluation of commercial mentoring instruments |
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| Authors: | Brad Gilbreath Gail L Rose Kim E Dietrich |
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| Institution: | 1. Hasan School of Business , Colorado State University – Pueblo , Pueblo, USA brad.gilbreath@colostate-pueblo.edu;3. Department of Psychiatry , The University of Vermont , Burlington, USA;4. Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness , University of Saint Francis , Fort Wayne, USA |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to inform readers about the types of instruments available for assessing and improving mentoring in organizations. Extensive review of the psychological, business and medical literature was conducted to identify commercially published, practitioner‐oriented instruments. All of the instruments that were identified – including the Alleman mentoring activities questionnaire, Mentoring in the moment, Mentoring skills assessment, and Principles of adult mentoring scale – are evaluated herein. Each instrument’s target audience, raters, subscales, response options, psychometric properties, and relative strengths and weaknesses are described. Although these instruments are reported to be used extensively, evidence of their validity is not always available. This review presents information that, in combination with first‐hand inspection of the instruments, should enable practitioners to differentiate between instruments that may be a fit for their needs from those that are not. Furthermore, it may introduce academic readers to instruments that are not covered in the scholarly literature in spite of their common use for non‐research purposes. |
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| Keywords: | instrument mentoring review validation human resource development |
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