*Faculty, Department of Management, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
**School of Nursing, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
Online published on 16 January, 2014.
Mentoring has been identified as an important tool for promoting leadership development and supporting individuals to realize their personal and professional potential. This paper presents a literature review on mentoring in organizations, and an analysis of effects and benefits to organizations and employees in Botswana. A literature review was conducted to explore the mentoring concept. The benefits of mentoring to both the mentor and mentee, and mentor-mentee matching as critical elements of successful mentoring were identified and recommendations for the implementation of mentoring programs in more organizations in Botswana were made.
Mentoring, mentor, mentee, organizational management, training, employee development
