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Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales
INTRODUCTION: Although organizational climate may affect faculty’s mentoring behaviors, there has not been any way to measure that climate. The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of two novel scales to measure organizational mentoring climate importance and availability a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057472/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33948274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2020.547 |
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author | Tigges, Beth B. Sood, Akshay Dominguez, Nora Kurka, Jonathan M. Myers, Orrin B. Helitzer, Deborah |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Although organizational climate may affect faculty’s mentoring behaviors, there has not been any way to measure that climate. The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of two novel scales to measure organizational mentoring climate importance and availability at two public research universities. METHODS: We developed 36 content-valid mentoring climate items in four dimensions: Structure, Programs/Activities, Policies/Guidelines, and Values. In total, 355 faculty completed an anonymous, structured, online survey asking about the importance (very important to very unimportant) and availability (no, don’t know, yes) of each of the items. We conducted reliability analyses and construct validity testing using exploratory common factor analysis, principal axis factoring, and oblique rotation. RESULTS: The majority of the predominantly female, White non-Hispanic, senior, tenure-track faculty were not currently mentoring another faculty or being mentored. Analyses demonstrated a 15-item solution for both the Organizational Mentoring Climate Importance (OMCI) and the Availability (OMCA) Scales, with three factors each: Organizational Expectations, Mentor–Mentee Relationships, and Resources. Standardized Cronbach alphas ranged from 0.74 to 0.90 for the subscales, and 0.94 (OMCI) and 0.87 (OMCA) for the full scales. Faculty rated all items as somewhat to very important; however, perceived availability was very low ranging from mentor training programs (40%) to guidelines for evaluating mentoring success or managing conflict (2.5%). CONCLUSIONS: The scales will allow studying of how organizational climate may affect mentoring behavior and whether climate can be changed to improve faculty mentoring outcomes. We provide recommendations for furthering the science of organizational mentoring climate and culture. |
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spelling | pubmed-80574722021-05-03 Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales Tigges, Beth B. Sood, Akshay Dominguez, Nora Kurka, Jonathan M. Myers, Orrin B. Helitzer, Deborah J Clin Transl Sci Research Article INTRODUCTION: Although organizational climate may affect faculty’s mentoring behaviors, there has not been any way to measure that climate. The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of two novel scales to measure organizational mentoring climate importance and availability at two public research universities. METHODS: We developed 36 content-valid mentoring climate items in four dimensions: Structure, Programs/Activities, Policies/Guidelines, and Values. In total, 355 faculty completed an anonymous, structured, online survey asking about the importance (very important to very unimportant) and availability (no, don’t know, yes) of each of the items. We conducted reliability analyses and construct validity testing using exploratory common factor analysis, principal axis factoring, and oblique rotation. RESULTS: The majority of the predominantly female, White non-Hispanic, senior, tenure-track faculty were not currently mentoring another faculty or being mentored. Analyses demonstrated a 15-item solution for both the Organizational Mentoring Climate Importance (OMCI) and the Availability (OMCA) Scales, with three factors each: Organizational Expectations, Mentor–Mentee Relationships, and Resources. Standardized Cronbach alphas ranged from 0.74 to 0.90 for the subscales, and 0.94 (OMCI) and 0.87 (OMCA) for the full scales. Faculty rated all items as somewhat to very important; however, perceived availability was very low ranging from mentor training programs (40%) to guidelines for evaluating mentoring success or managing conflict (2.5%). CONCLUSIONS: The scales will allow studying of how organizational climate may affect mentoring behavior and whether climate can be changed to improve faculty mentoring outcomes. We provide recommendations for furthering the science of organizational mentoring climate and culture. Cambridge University Press 2020-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8057472/ /pubmed/33948274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2020.547 Text en © The Association for Clinical and Translational Science 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the same Creative Commons licence is included and the original work is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tigges, Beth B. Sood, Akshay Dominguez, Nora Kurka, Jonathan M. Myers, Orrin B. Helitzer, Deborah Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales |
title | Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales |
title_full | Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales |
title_fullStr | Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales |
title_full_unstemmed | Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales |
title_short | Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales |
title_sort | measuring organizational mentoring climate: importance and availability scales |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057472/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33948274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2020.547 |
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