Today the mentoring relationship is being recognized as a powerful tool to raise talents providing every individual in an organization the effectiveness, and is being expanded among the business enterprises both officially and unofficially.
Mentoring is a series of process that influences on the formation, maintenance and development of a powerful continuous relationship between the upper rank(Mentor) and the lower rank(Mentee) in an organization. It is valued as an effective tool that helps on the effective training and the career management as well as the mental stability of the members of the organization. Especially, there has been an increase of interest toward the usefulness of mentoring in overcoming the difficulties of women in regard with the career development in an organization.
Thus, this study intended to find ways to revitalize mentoring for the women power by understanding the present state of the characteristics, functions, obstacles of mentoring formed by the female employees in the railroads. For that purpose, total of 200 copies of survey was distributed to the female employees working at the Korea Railroad Corporation. The final 152 copies, other than the invalid answers among the total 155 collected copies were used as data for the analysis.
The ways to activate mentoring that can be deduced from the result of this study are as follows;
first, the difficulties in forming a mentoring relationship must be eliminated in order to activate the mentoring system for the female employees in the field of railroad.
second, there must be a case study done on the mentoring relationship.
third, there must be an active support of the management for the formation of mentoring.
fourth, methods and processes for forming the mentoring relationship must be prepared.
fifth, ways to develop the mentoring relationship to the next level must be sought after.
sixth, the functions and benefits from the mentoring must be differentiated.
The results of this study can be applied as a basis of finding the process of mentoring for the career development of the women power in the railroad and the improvement of the competitive power of the corporation.