Diversity in Engineering Managing the Workforce of the Future (2002) / Chapter Skim
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du Pont de Nemours and Company presented an overview of DuPont's mentoring program. They described the four guiding principles of the DuPont mentoring program, which are that it is: · voluntary · open to all employees · protege driven · management supported with encouragement and administrative resources The program is protege driven in the sense that individuals who want to participate as proteges (or mentees)
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Finally, succession planning should be part of the program. Some of the pitfalls and challenges of mentoring programs identified by du Pont are: meeting too infrequently, lack of meaningful discussions, and failure
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Are there potential pitfalls in mentoring programs for diverse employees, and, if so, how should they be handled? Is there a "best" way to deal with the issues of gender and ethnicity in mentoring programs?
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Mentoring programs that have built in "fault-free termination" are more effective. Finally, the third question was if there is a "best" way to deal with crossgender, cross-racial, and similar issues in mentoring programs.
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