What’s in a name? A literature-based approach to understanding mentoring, coaching, and other constructs that describe developmental interactions
CP D’Abate, ER Eddy, SI Tannenbaum Human resource development review 2003
Employee development can take a variety of forms including “developmental interactions” such as coaching, mentoring, apprenticeship, and action learning. The broad literature on approaches to development lacks agreement on what these constructs represent. Rather than impose new construct definitions on the field, the current research addr...