Seeing the forest and the trees: A complex adaptive systems lens for mentoring

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dc.contributor.authorJones, Rachel Matthew
dc.contributor.authorCorner, James
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-31T03:10:20Z
dc.date.available2013-01-31T03:10:20Z
dc.date.copyright2012-03-06
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractWe offer a complex adaptive systems (CAS) lens as a potentially fruitful cross-disciplinary perspective for mentoring. Understanding mentoring relationships as CAS will invigorate the field and assist it to be responsive and relevant given our increasingly complex and turbulent environment. We begin by exploring the key properties of CAS. We then review the current mentoring literature's connection to the systems and complexity theories that underpin CAS, demonstrating CAS's relevance. We further examine four specific benefits that such a lens could bring, including attention to process, the reconceptualization of context, the adoption of new methodologies, and the fostering of interdisciplinary conversation. Research questions the CAS lens might stimulate for mentoring are then considered and difficulties with the CAS approach explored. We conclude by suggesting how CAS-informed research might shape mentoring knowledge and practice.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationJones, R., & Corner, J. (2012). Seeing the forest and the trees: A complex adaptive systems lens for mentoring. Human Relations, 65(3), 391-411.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0018726711430556en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn0018-7267
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/7132
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSageen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfHuman Relationsen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofHuman Relations
dc.subjectcomplex adaptive systemsen_NZ
dc.subjectcomplexityen_NZ
dc.subjectmanagementen_NZ
dc.subjectmentoringen_NZ
dc.subjectmentorsen_NZ
dc.subjectorganizational theoryen_NZ
dc.subjectsystemsen_NZ
dc.titleSeeing the forest and the trees: A complex adaptive systems lens for mentoringen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page391en_NZ
pubs.elements-id37529
pubs.end-page411en_NZ
pubs.issue3en_NZ
pubs.volume65en_NZ
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