A Trust-Based Model Of Mentoring Culture

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Mentoring opens the doorway to cultural capital denotes a wide range of resources such understanding how things are perceived and done from the perspective of a wider professional network. Professional culture includes a person’s cultural awareness is often expressed by who they know, what circles they work and socialised in and who they can call upon for assistance e.g. act as a referee or a sponsor for a future role. Mentoring fosters a trusting climate and dialogue within the professional sphere. It can assist in creating positive feedback and building a culture to develop and reinforce this. Continuous learning processes, inquiry and dialogue, require a trusting relationship between groups and individuals (i.e., organisational, environmental and individual) so as to be efficient Marsick and V'atkins (2003). Certainly communication across any domain within an organisation requires trust in order to be understood and received well by each end (Avolio & Reichard, 2008). …show more content…
A "trust-based" model (Nyhan, 2000, p. 102) suggests that organisational culture provides the tenets for good communication to occur. Mentoring provides an organisational-level feedback strategy which targets staff and organisational development incorporating mutual exchanges to promote trust (Grenier, Chiocchio, and Beaulieu 2012). Negative feedback led to task and relational conflict. However, staff working in a trusting culture responded better to criticism than those who did not and further were more likely to act on it. Staff who perceived trust in the workplace acknowledged that negative feedback still holds value and meaning rather than unconstructive implications (Peterson and Behfarb