Workplace mentoring is a “learning partnership between employees for purposes of sharing technical information, institutional knowledge and insight with respect to a particular occupation, profession, organization or endeavor”.
[12] Mentors then have the opportunity to grow and learn from teaching the mentees, which ultimately helps their work performance.
[12] Experts, leaders, and professionals benefit from passing the knowledge they’ve gained over the years to the next generation.
[16] Their self-images are reinforced by these interactions and in turn commit them to a sense of professional identity and engagement in development activities.
[17] If high-quality mentoring is done it can create and experience where both the new and veteran employee can learn and grow in their jobs and have the opportunity to advance in the future.
As the distance or globalization increases, then barriers to effective communication arise impeding the understanding between mentor and mentee.