The study focused on mentoring relationship effectiveness (RE) from the perspective of protege in the healthcare environment. The purpose tried to examine the effects of interpersonal attraction, self-efficacy and transformational leadership (TL) on RE respectively, to test mentoring function as a mediator, and to verify the effect of RE on protege work outcomes. Self-administered questionnaires were employed and 306 questionnaires from hospital nurses were collected in total. Structural equation model was used to test the research model. The results indicated that interpersonal attraction and TL do have positive effects on RE while self-efficacy was not; RE also showed a significant effect on job satisfaction and organizational commitment, which verified that the formal mentoring among nurses was good for improving relationship quality and relationship learning between mentors and proteges. Accordingly, to strengthen the antecedent variables would be helpful for mentoring RE, and also the protege's work outcomes.
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Journal of Management & Organization v.18 n.5 pp.685-701
