• Azizeh Chalak

  Author

• Mohammad Ali Esfandiari

  Author

• Ahmad Noroozi

  Author

This qualitative case study of ten females was intended to approach the ways these females have
altered the mentoring to fit their learning style, work environments, and personal lives. The
mentoring model, in the past, pivoted around a male model of competition. Females have altered
mentoring to incorporate the importance of relationships and their responsibility to these
relationships. This study was intended to check out if mentorship has become situational, and
mirror the immediate needs of the participants. 10 females were singled out to constitute the
convenience sample. Participants were interviewed to expound on the probable gender
differences in mentoring based on mentoring criteria. These females displayed how to glean
information and of how to achieve in their professional and personal lives. The study indicated
that females have developed their own model of mentorship that suits their learning styles,
values, and life roles. This study reaffirms that females cherish relationships with other
colleagues and they shy away from direct challenge with their colleagues and particularly those
who outrank them. Females brook no mistreatment including disparagement, threat, being
pushed around etc. All the mentored females trained by veterans realized and believed in the
value of mentorship as a significant method that is crucial for them to advance their career.
Mentors in this company developed and modeled the needed discourse built on gendered ways of
dealing with workplace matters to their mentees. A significant finding was that female mentors in
companies can be highly influential in sharpening female staff’s skills in attending to common
issues.

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