Suzanne Janssen- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at University of Twente
Suzanne Janssen
- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at University of Twente
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Introduction
Suzanne Janssen currently works at the Department of Communication Science, University of Twente.
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February 2011 - November 2015
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Publications (7)
Mentoring relationships between research supervisors and doctoral students play a key role in doctoral students’ success. Self-determination theory assumes that the quality of these relationships can be defined in terms of fulfillment of students’ basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Studies on how supervisors and st...
Research into workplace mentoring is primarily focused on the experiences and perceptions of individuals involved in the relationship, while there is scarcely any research focusing on the impact of mentoring relationships on their social environment. This exploratory research aims to give insight into how coworkers’ perceptions and experiences of i...
This paper reviews the literature on informal mentoring at work. Based on two basic premises of interpersonal relationships, it discusses four promising areas in current mentoring research that could be cultivated further by future research.The first premise that we hold is that relationships never exist in a vacuum. Traditionally, however, mentori...
This study examines the motives mentors have for providing developmental support to their protégés. Based on qualitative interviews with 20 informal mentors, we show five broad categories of mentor motives: self-focused motives (based on individual reasons), protégé-focused motives (directed at the protégé), relationship-focused motives (directed a...
