Mentoring and Diversity Management in Global Enterprises

Authors

  • Herta Camila Fernandes Diógenes Nunes Maia Universidade Potiguar (UnP), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, hertacamila@yahoo.com.br https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8571-3215
  • Walid Abbas El-Aouar Universidade Potiguar (UnP), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, walidbranco@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4033-7655
  • Lydia Maria Pinto Brito Universidade Potiguar (UnP), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, lydiampbrito@yahoo.com.br https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1514-9476
  • Ahiram Brunni Cartaxo de Castro Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, brunnicastro@hotmail.com
  • Arthur William Pereira da Silva Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE), Jaguaruana, Ceará, Brasil, arthur.silva@ifce.edu.br https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4515-6581

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/ci.v23.62527

Keywords:

Mentoring, Diversity management, Global enterprises, Bibliometric study

Abstract

Objective o map the scientific production on mentoring and diversity management in the Scopus database, with the time frame of 2009-2018, to identify organizational practices that are related to social integration and knowledge sharing as support to the process of learning in global companies. It is a qualitative research made possible by the techniques of bibliometric study and contextual analysis. The results highlighting mentoring as an alternative for promoting diversity and reducing barriers to minority groups, especially in education and professional training in health. It was not demonstrated the specific intention of applying the researched themes to facilitate the process of social integration and organizational learning, since only the psychosocial functions of support and guidance of mentoring, of a spontaneous character, were identified. Three dimensions of the relationship between mentoring and diversity management could be raised and these could support future studies, being: Practices of social integration and knowledge sharing; Formal mentoring and Mentoring as an inclusive strategy, for the development of social and emotional skills in groups considered minority.

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Author Biographies

Herta Camila Fernandes Diógenes Nunes Maia, Universidade Potiguar (UnP), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, hertacamila@yahoo.com.br

Mestre em Administração e graduada em psicologia pela Universidade Potiguar.

Walid Abbas El-Aouar, Universidade Potiguar (UnP), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, walidbranco@gmail.com

Doutor em Administração pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração (Mestrado e Doutorado) da Universidade Potiguar. 

Lydia Maria Pinto Brito, Universidade Potiguar (UnP), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, lydiampbrito@yahoo.com.br

Doutora em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Ceará. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação (Mestrato e Doutorado) em Administração da Universidade Potiguar.

Ahiram Brunni Cartaxo de Castro, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, brunnicastro@hotmail.com

PhD, Master (2011) and Graduated in Administration (2004) from Universidade Potiguar (UnP). Specialist in People Management by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN (2006) and in Rural Extension for Sustainable Development by the Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid - UFERSA (2008).

Arthur William Pereira da Silva, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE), Jaguaruana, Ceará, Brasil, arthur.silva@ifce.edu.br

Mestre em Administração pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba, mestre em Ambiente, Tecnologia e Sociedade pela Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido e graduado em Administração pela Universidade Potiguar. Professor de Administração do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará.

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Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

MAIA, H. C. F. D. N. .; EL-AOUAR, W. A. .; BRITO, L. M. . P. .; CASTRO, A. B. C. de; SILVA, A. W. . P. da . Mentoring and Diversity Management in Global Enterprises. Comunicação & Informação, Goiânia, Goiás, v. 23, 2020. DOI: 10.5216/ci.v23.62527. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/ci/article/view/62527. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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