L’influence des comportements interpersonnels des mentors sur la motivation des mentorés et leur expérience au travail : Une étude transversale et une étude prospective.

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, Vol 55(4), Oct 2023, 261-272; doi:10.1037/cbs0000366Mentoring is an effective way to help employees improve their skills, strengthen their relationships, and promote learning in the workplace. However, studies indicate that mentoring can also be harmful or ineffective for some mentees, particularly due to mentors ’ interpersonal behaviors. Two studies with complementary designs were conducted: one with a cross-sectional approach (N = 226) and a second with a prospective approach (N = 278). Both studies aimed to examine the effect of mentors’ interpersonal behaviors (from the mentees’ perspective) on mentees’ workplace outcomes (turnover intentions, work engagement, well-being at work, quality of the mentoring relationship) through two types of contextual motivation (work and mentoring). Overall, the results suggest that the need-supportive interpersonal behaviors exhibited by mentors contribute to greater autonomous motivation at work and in the mentoring relationship, which is associated with more positive functioning among mentees. In contrast, restrictive interpersonal behaviors are related to greater controlled forms of motivation, which decreases mentees’ work engagement, their well-being at work and the quality of the mentoring relationship and increases their turnover intentions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research