Studying the Consequences of applying Mentoring in order to empowering new faculty members: Content Analysis

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Somayeh Daneshmandi ¹
• kourosh fathi vajargah ¹
• Abasalt khorasani ²
• Behrooz Ghlichlee ¹

¹ Shahid Beheshti University

² Shahid Beheshtii University

Abstract

This study explored the Consequences of applying Mentoring in order to empowering new faculty members. As a qualitative study, this research utilized analyses content approach beside semi-structured interviews for data collection. It is a qualitative descriptive study using qualitative content analysis of semi-structured interviews with 20 professors and key informants of Faculty Mentoring. The sampling method is purposive using a snowball sampling technique. Interviews continued to get saturation. Then contents of the interviews were analyzed using open coding and axial coding method to get categories. Finding showed there are consequences of using mentoring for new faculty members. The consequences are in 2 Major categories, 6 Minor categories, and 23 subcategories.

Keywords

• Mentoring
• faculty members
• New Hired
• development
• consequences

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