[[alternative]]A Study of the Relationship between Mentoring and Employee's Career Development----Using Insurance company as an Example

[[abstract]]The purposes of this study were to explore the process of mentoring used in the case companies and its influence on to employee's career development.The research methods employed was interview. The cases of the study are two insurance companies inTaiwan. There were four employees interviewed in each company . Three of them took the role as mentor for most of the time, and the others are proteges. This study arranges these activities based on Kram's idea toward mentoring functions-vocational career and psysical social, and the factors affecting mentoring from mentor and protege's point of view were analyzed. The conclusions of this study are: 1. Mentoring is one of the promotion force for business employees. And proteges can learn from mentors' successful experience and work attitudes to maintain company's culture. 2. The learning methods used by mentor were classroom teaching, practice, and on site observation. The contact methods are meeting, chatting, discussing, assembling and etc. 3. From protege's view, mentors took the role as friend; and from mentor's view, mentor acted as friends and coaches. And sometimes the proteges had the feeling of competition, but the mentors didn't have the similar one . 4. The mentors in case companies took the role as "major mentor" . 5.Mentoring can improve employees professional knowledge, and broaden his/ her personal network. The increase of salary, opportunity , and promotion is based on one's own contribution.