* Apologies for cross posting *
Global leadership research has so far been driven by western scholars, and scholarship in the realm of mentorship is no exception. In the last 15 years research on mentorship in some of the top management journals have been from the west, and that too largely North American centric (Chandler, Kram & Yip, 2011).
Yet little is known about the cultural variations of the mentoring phenomenon, which begs the question of whether the mentoring literature based on low power distance western cultures can in fact be generalized. Only recently some studies on mentoring have begun to emerge from countries such as China (Wang, Noe & Greenberger, 2009) and India (Haynes & Ghosh, 2012; Kumar, 2017).
In this context we are looking to organize a symposium this upcoming AOM that broadly explores The Mentoring Experience in Asian Countries. Please contact us if you have research to share on workplace mentoring (formal or informal), with regard to a) antecedents b) predictors c) moderators or mediators d) approaches to mentoring in different countries (with a 300 word abstract).
We would love to hear from you.
Regards,
Payal Kumar
Professor, School of Management,
BML Munjal University, India
Pawan Budhwar,
Joint Director, Aston India Centre for Applied Research
Aston Business School, Aston University, UK