The Effects of Perceived Formality of Communication and Mentoring on Occupational Commitment in Graduate Students

• In Event: Communicating Worldviews: Communication Competence and Issues in Graduate Student Teaching, Training, and Mentoring

Abstract

Mentoring relationships are often an important component of the socialization process in organizations. This study seeks to extend current research on mentoring by looking at the perceptions of the formality of communication on both the satisfaction of the perceived mentoring relationship and occupational commitment among graduate students.

Author

• Disraelly Cruz, University of Missouri, Columbia