The effects of mentorship structure on the development of core competencies of interns

• Main Authors: Gaon, Juan Carlos, Iledan, Marionne Anika, Wong, Man Fung Lorraine, Zubiri, Fernando Gaston
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Core competencies; Internship programs; Mentoring.; Business and Corporate Communications
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11152
• Institution: De La Salle University

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.