Suzanne Janssen
University of Twente
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Group & Organization Management | 2018
Suzanne Janssen; Joël Tahitu; Mark van Vuuren; Menno D.T. de Jong
Research into workplace mentoring is primarily focused on the experiences and perceptions of individuals involved in the relationship, while there is scarcely any research focusing on the impact of mentoring relationships on their social environment. This exploratory research aims to give insight into how coworkers’ perceptions and experiences of informal mentoring relationships in their workgroup are related to their perceptions of workgroup functioning. The results of 21 semistructured interviews show that coworkers believe that mentoring relationships affect their workgroup’s functioning by influencing both their workgroup’s performance and climate. Coworkers applied an instrumental perspective and described how they think that mentoring relationships both improve and hinder their workgroup’s performance as they influence the individual functioning of mentor and protégé, the workgroup’s efficiency, and organizational outcomes. Furthermore, coworkers applied a relational perspective and described how mentoring relationships may influence their workgroup’s climate in primarily negative ways as they may be perceived as a subgroup, cause feelings of distrust and envy, and are associated with power issues. The results of this study emphasize the importance of studying mentoring relationships in their broader organizational context and set the groundwork for future research on mentoring relationships in workgroups.
Archive | 2015
Suzanne Janssen
The studies reported in this dissertation aimed to inform researchers studying informal workplace mentoring relationships. A mentoring relationship involves a more experienced employee (the mentor) and a less experienced employee (the protege) for the purpose of advancing the protege’s career. This dissertation started with an extensive literature review, which serves as a future research agenda to inspire scholars working in the field of mentoring. Several underdeveloped research areas were identified in this review. The empirical qualitative studies in this dissertation contributed to these research areas. In these studies, proteges, mentors, coupled pairs of mentors and proteges, and persons from their direct work environment were included. Important in addressing the identified shortcomings in the current literature, is the self-determination theory. This theory proposes that individuals have three basic needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. How these basic needs are fulfilled in the context of mentoring relationships, was an important question in this dissertation. Self-determination theory was found to serve as relevant framework for understanding mentoring processes and to get more insight into the role of need-fulfillment processes in these relationships. This dissertation shows how mentors play an important role in satisfying proteges’ needs and how proteges evaluate these need-supportive functions. This dissertation also shows the motives informal mentors may have for providing developmental support to their proteges. Last, this dissertation showed how outsiders of informal mentoring relationships perceive these relationships in their direct work context. The studies presented in this dissertation show us the importance of informal relationships and processes in organizations and how they may satisfy employees’ needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
Journal of Vocational Behavior | 2014
Suzanne Janssen; Mark van Vuuren; Menno D.T. de Jong
Public Relations Review | 2012
Suzanne Janssen; Carlien K.A. Van Dalfsen; Joris Jasper van Hoof; Mark van Vuuren
International Journal of Management Reviews | 2016
Suzanne Janssen; Mark van Vuuren; Menno D.T. de Jong
Journal of Vocational Behavior | 2013
Suzanne Janssen; Mark van Vuuren; Menno D.T. de Jong
EAWOP 2015: 17th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology: Respectful and effective leadership: Managing people and organizations in turbulent times | 2015
Suzanne Janssen; Hubrecht A. van Vuuren; Menno D.T. de Jong
7th European Conference on Positive Psychology 2014 | 2014
Suzanne Janssen; Hubrecht A. van Vuuren; Menno D.T. de Jong
66th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, ICA 2016: Communication with Power | 2016
Suzanne Janssen; Jordi Franciscus Gosselt; Benthe Bemelman
Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2015: The interdisciplinary turn in communication sciences | 2015
Suzanne Janssen; Joël Tahitu; Hubrecht A. van Vuuren