The effects of mentorship structure on the development of core competencies of interns
Date of Publication
2014
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Applied Corporate Management
Subject Categories
Business and Corporate Communications
College
Ramon V. Del Rosario College of Business
Department/Unit
Business Management
Thesis Adviser
Assumpta C. Marasigan
Defense Panel Member
Pia Manalastas
Abstract/Summary
Mentorship structure is known to affect the relationship between the mentor and prot through the Prot-Mentor Agreement (Waters, 2004). This paper extends the study of this relationship to capture the effects of the mentorship structure to the achievement of the sic core competencies of the ACM program through the intern-supervisors agreement (ISA) with the intern as the prot and the supervisors as the mentor. Baron and Kennys approach, which investigates the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable through a mediating variable, and Water (2004) study on Prot-Mentor Agreement (PMA) served as the theoretical foundation of this study. In this study, we hypothesized that the structural attributes of the mentorship have a positive relationship with the achievement of the core competencies. We also hypothesized that this relationship is mediated by the ISA.
We tested out hypothesis using a regression analysis on the data obtained through surveys distributed to ACM interns and supervisors during AY 201302014. We found that the frequency of meetings and the supervisors experience in handling ACM interns are significant structural variables which affect the ISA. ISA, in turn, significantly affects the achievement of the core competencies expected of an ACM intern. We also found that ISA fully mediates the effect of the supervisors agreement to the core competencies. Contradictory to our a-priori expectations, interns experience and gender mix turned out insignificant due to some shortcomings of the data in addressing the framework.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU18661
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
98 leaves ; 28 cm.
Keywords
Core competencies; Internship programs; Mentoring.
Recommended Citation
Gaon, J., Iledan, M., Wong, M., & Zubiri, F. G. (2014). The effects of mentorship structure on the development of core competencies of interns. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11152
