The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United States
To examine if mentorship can be utilized to alleviate workaholic tendencies and encourage heavy work investment, our paper explored the links between mentorship functions, mentorship quality, and employee outcomes. Hypotheses were tested among 271 full-time employees living in the United States f...
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| author | David Sloan Alan C. Mikkelson Sebastian Văduva |
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| description | To examine if mentorship can be utilized to alleviate workaholic tendencies and encourage
heavy work investment, our paper explored the links between mentorship functions,
mentorship quality, and employee outcomes. Hypotheses were tested among 271 full-time
employees living in the United States from various organizations using path analysis. Our
research's novelty is the analysis of how mentorship functions of career support,
psychosocial support and role modeling have a direct effect on mentorship quality and an
indirect effect on employee flourishing, job satisfaction, and job stress. The mentoring
function of career support also directly affected the mentorship quality and indirectly
affected job stress. A direct effect was found between career support and employee
flourishing and job satisfaction. Practical implications, such as the easing of workaholic
tendencies and encouragement of heavy work investment, along with limitations, and
directions for future research, are analyzed |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc6498cd01ca4f20a3804aa011c20b5c2022-12-22T03:57:17ZengAcademy of Economic Studies of BucharestAmfiteatru Economic1582-91462247-91042020-11-0122Special Issue 141030104810.24818/EA/2020/S14/1030The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United StatesDavid Sloan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8158-1796Alan C. Mikkelson1Sebastian Văduva2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9630-744XWhitworth University Spokane, Washington, USAWhitworth University Spokane, Washington, USAEmanuel University of Oradea, Oradea, RomaniaTo examine if mentorship can be utilized to alleviate workaholic tendencies and encourage heavy work investment, our paper explored the links between mentorship functions, mentorship quality, and employee outcomes. Hypotheses were tested among 271 full-time employees living in the United States from various organizations using path analysis. Our research's novelty is the analysis of how mentorship functions of career support, psychosocial support and role modeling have a direct effect on mentorship quality and an indirect effect on employee flourishing, job satisfaction, and job stress. The mentoring function of career support also directly affected the mentorship quality and indirectly affected job stress. A direct effect was found between career support and employee flourishing and job satisfaction. Practical implications, such as the easing of workaholic tendencies and encouragement of heavy work investment, along with limitations, and directions for future research, are analyzedhttps://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_2950.pdfmentorshipworkaholismheavy work investmentemployee well-being |
| spellingShingle | David Sloan Alan C. Mikkelson Sebastian Văduva The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United States Amfiteatru Economic mentorship workaholism heavy work investment employee well-being |
| title | The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United States |
| title_full | The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United States |
| title_fullStr | The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United States |
| title_short | The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United States |
| title_sort | importance of mentorship in diminishing workaholism and increasing heavy work investment evidence from the united states |
| topic | mentorship workaholism heavy work investment employee well-being |
| url | https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_2950.pdf |
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