Importance of Formal Mentoring in the Workplace

The Master’s Thesis aims to explore the phenomenon of formal уxternal mentoring provided to employees in a corporate setting, its drawbacks, benefits, and barriers to successful implementation. The methodology used in the thesis has the form of a focus group conducted with five mentees and in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted with four mentors. Thematic analysis was further used for the data analysis. The outcomes are five main themes identified, which provide an insight on tangibility inside mentoring, success and failure factors, benefits in a corporate setting and a perfect mentor-protégé match. On top of that, some disputes like Internal versus External Mentoring, the depth of the relationship between parties, and the seniority of mentors are discussed.