Mentoring in AMC: Where Are We and Where Should We Go?

Abstract

Leader development is essential to the long term success of any organization, especially a military organization. Volumes of research promote the crucial need for leadership development and offer numerous different ways to accomplish this goal. Leadership development involves teaching critical skills needed to accomplish the mission and transmitting the core values and traditions of the organization to successive generations. The research shows that one effective way to accomplish this goal is through mentoring. This paper examines mentoring as one method of leadership development and includes a discussion of the benefits and barriers to mentoring. It also discusses mentoring in the context of current leader development initiatives in Air Mobility Command (AMC), both formal and informal. Recommendations for enhancing and encouraging mentoring as a means to develop future Air Mobility leaders are provided.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA354253

Entities

People

  • Jefferson S. Dunn

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Education
  • Human Behavior
  • Instructors
  • Leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Schools
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Systems Analysis and Design