Article Review on Mentoring in the Workplace

IntroductionMentoring and its application is very much the vogue now in corporate America. It is a strategy employed by companies or institutions to enhance professionalism and the increased transfer of learning and building of skills from the more adept and/or experienced to the junior or neophyte employee. It is also a way of improved retention rate within a company.DiscussionA survey conducted by the TWA, a publication of the Society of the oil color Engineers, revealed that in the integrated major oil companies, 36% responded on the subject matter they posed on mentoring. Another which participated came from the service and/or manufacturing companies (28%). The article well presented the essence of mentoring, what an ideal mentor is like, and the prevalence of the practice in organizations as well as the projected status this process would attain in the future (Tealdi and Donachie, 2007).An excellently done study, the article mentions the many-faceted concept that mentoring i s today. It was able to give the reader a balanced idea whether this practice has done well in price of its success in the application. For instance, the finding that the reasons other companies mentoring program did not do well was due to a fragmented approach.It is remarkable that the responses of employees on their companys mentoring program range from satisfaction to what the editors say as demotivated mentors and mentees. This has shown that planning is crucial to its successful implementation. The successful ones had their focus on the technical advice and cargoner development that are the most important issues for employees and their dream for advancement. This is a selling point for those institutions which are hesitant in their implementation (Tealdi and Donachie, 2007).The article also mentioned the nuances of the practice in hurt of the different schemes each company that participated in the survey might utilize. This means that mentoring can be formal or informal, and it can be monitored or with tokenish attention at all. However, as mentioned, a careful study on method, conceptual framework, system of monitoring and evaluation might be an effective conceptualization before the practice starts (Tealdi and Donachie, 2007).I think it will work in my workplace. Although, not as formally introduced and practiced as many other companies had done already, a few other co-workers had started an informal working relationship as mentor and mentee. This must be the reason that renewed interest and enthusiasm permeates the workplace surround since its informal inception. I guess it will even work well if my organizations leadership will institutionalize the program.ReferenceTealdi, Loris, John Donachie, Forum editors. Mentoring today for tomorrow The Way Ahead 2003 2007. Accessed June 25, 2007