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The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study
Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| author2 | Brand, H.E. (Heinrich Everhardus) |
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24028 The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study Brand, H.E. (Heinrich Everhardus) olgaswanepoel1@gmail.com Swanepoel, Olga Minette Qualitative research Leader development Leadership Mentoring UCTD Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Organisations depend on strong and competent leaders for their sustainability, profitability and competitiveness. Therefore organisations have an extremely strong focus on development, and especially on leader development. Mentoring has been recognised as a developmental tool (Truter, 2008, p.61) and is therefore employed by many organisations to foster such development. The primary aim of this study is to determine whether and to what effect, mentoring can be used to foster leader development in a business context. The research is of a qualitative, phenomenological nature and enquires into the perceptions, personal experiences and knowledge of people who have been exposed to mentoring and leader development, in order to understand how mentoring has played a role in the development of their leadership. In-depth interviews were conducted with a sample of six participants in order to collect the required data; and South African and international literature was consulted in order to interpret the interview data accurately in terms of the primary aim of the study. The study revealed the following results amongst others: <ul> <li> There is a connection between mentoring and leader development and mentoring can be used to develop leaders.</li> <li> Leader development is not possible in the absence of mentoring.</li> <li> Mentoring can contribute to leader development by focussing on a person’s development and teaching that person to become a good or a better leader.</li> <li> Mentoring has the ability to positively impact or benefit leader development.</li> <li> Mentoring has the ability to develop a person’s leadership capability and competence (i.e. his/her ability to be a leader).</li> <li> Mentoring can be used as a tool to develop effective leaders.</li> </ul> Human Resource Management unrestricted 2013-09-06T16:28:05Z 2013-04-25 2013-09-06T16:28:05Z 2013-04-04 2012 2013-04-19 Dissertation Swanepoel, OM 2012, The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study, MCom dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24028 > C13/4/15/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24028 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04192013-152811/ © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Qualitative research Leader development Leadership Mentoring UCTD The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study |
| title | The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study |
| title_full | The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study |
| title_fullStr | The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study |
| title_short | The effect of mentoring on the development of leaders : a qualitative study |
| title_sort | effect of mentoring on the development of leaders a qualitative study |
| topic | Qualitative research Leader development Leadership Mentoring UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24028 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04192013-152811/ |