Description
This study inquires whether public accounting mentoring relationships conform to the classical Greco-Roman model
(where mentors guide proteges and eventually release them to pursue an autonomous life) or a modern form (where
mentoring continues indefinitely and serves as an organizational control mechanism). Data was obtained from 630
professionals in the accounting profession who reported having a mentor. Participants who considered the mentoring
relationship to be in the past, yet remained working in close physical proximity of their mentor, reported the highest
levels of mentorship tension
doc_942967925.pdf
This study inquires whether public accounting mentoring relationships conform to the classical Greco-Roman model
(where mentors guide proteges and eventually release them to pursue an autonomous life) or a modern form (where
mentoring continues indefinitely and serves as an organizational control mechanism). Data was obtained from 630
professionals in the accounting profession who reported having a mentor. Participants who considered the mentoring
relationship to be in the past, yet remained working in close physical proximity of their mentor, reported the highest
levels of mentorship tension
doc_942967925.pdf