The Importance of Mentorship in Diminishing Workaholism and Increasing Heavy Work Investment: Evidence from the United States

To examine if mentorship can be utilized to alleviate workaholic tendencies and encourage heavy work investment, our paper explored the links between mentorship functions, mentorship quality, and employee outcomes. Hypotheses were tested among 271 full-time employees living in the United States from...

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Published inAmfiteatru economic Vol. 22; no. SI 14; pp. 1030 - 1048
Main Authors Sloan, David, Mikkelson, Alan C, Vaduva, Sebastian A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bucharest EDITURA ASE 01.11.2020
ASE Publishing House
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Commerce
Subjects
Automation
Careers
Demography
Employees
Employment
Human Resources in Economy
Industry 4.0
Investments
Job satisfaction
Literature reviews
Mentoring
Occupational stress
Path analysis
Productivity
Psychosocial factors
Psychosocial support
Skills
Subcontractors
Workaholism
United States > US
China
mentorship
heavy work investment
employee wellbeing
workaholism
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Summary:To examine if mentorship can be utilized to alleviate workaholic tendencies and encourage heavy work investment, our paper explored the links between mentorship functions, mentorship quality, and employee outcomes. Hypotheses were tested among 271 full-time employees living in the United States from various organizations using path analysis. Our research's novelty is the analysis of how mentorship functions of career support, psychosocial support and role modeling have a direct effect on mentorship quality and an indirect effect on employee flourishing, job satisfaction, and job stress. The mentoring function of career support also directly affected the mentorship quality and indirectly affected job stress. A direct effect was found between career support and employee flourishing and job satisfaction. Practical implications, such as the easing of workaholic tendencies and encouragement of heavy work investment, along with limitations, and directions for future research, are analyzed.
ISSN:1582-9146
2247-9104
DOI:10.24818/EA/2020/S14/1030