| Summary: | 碩士 === 長榮大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 95 === Abstract
Mentorship is a relationship between seniors and juniors. Through mentorship, it provides assistances for juniors in all respects. In business, many companies utilize mentorship to quickly socialize the new employees and make them learn the expertise. However, the mentorship are not only used extensively in business, but also are important at schools.
At school, the mentoring relationship is also an important part in the interpersonal relationship especially for the relationship between advisers and graduate students. Comparing to the mentorship between colleagues in the business, the relationship between advisers and graduate students is more similar to the traditional concept of transfer the knowledge from mentor to prot?縵??. During the graduate students’ studying, advisers instruct the graduate students to do their researches, and may also care about students’ personal life. Furthermore, it depends on the master dissertation whether the students can graduate. Advisers want to complete their master dissertation, must relies on their adviser’s instructions. It is a kind of mentorship which is very worthwhile to be researched.
This study adopts qualitative methods. It interviewed 35 graduate students from different colleges in Taiwan so as to understand the formation and interaction of the mentorship between advisers and graduate students. The study found that: (1) The motive for the on-the-job graduate students entering graduate school and their timing of inviting advisers for their theses are different from that of the full-time graduate students. (2) In terms of mentoring function, if the advisers provide more guidance, the instrumental help of mentoring function is higher. If there are more private interactions between the advisers and graduate students, the psychosocial help of mentoring function is high. (3) In the situation of the advisers actively consult with the graduate students, the instrumental help provided by those advisers is not lower. In terms of gender influence, female graduate students wherever in the respects of the instrumental help, psychosocial help and overall mentoring function are higher than male graduate students. (4) In the respect of the factors influence the advisers in supervising the dissertation, the study found that the factors slightly influence the interaction between the advisers and graduate students. (5) In the respect of whether the interaction between the advisers and graduate students will influence students’ satisfaction toward the advisers, it found that the frequency of discussing dissertation has slight influence toward students’ satisfaction, but the advisers’ guidelines have decisive influence.
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