2.8 Characteristics Of A Good Mentor

2.8 Characteristics of a Good Mentor

A good mentor portrays certain qualities and uniqueness. Due to the existence of individual differences, some of the qualities that a particular mentor may process may differ from another mentors´ qualities. However most mentors have some common similarities. Mentors could as well come in different forms such as a group of people, mentoring conferences, associations and so on. Some characteristics of a good mentor are listed below:

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2.8.1 Awareness of the outside world:

A good mentor is aware of the world outside his or her own environment. As good businessmen are aware of changes that occur outside their own particular line of business, which may

Networking can also help provide relevant information, insightful views and career-enhancing contacts. An effective mentor do not only participates in networking, but also understands how employees in the organisation can benefit from networking. A mentor ensures that the mentee learns the importance of networking irrespective of their cultural differences, in order to begin to establish his own networks in his position of work in the

As an example, in July 2006, Huawei's customers in Congo changed the project due to objective reasons, and the construction of the core network equipment in the original 30 days was compressed to 4 days. After careful analysis and judgment of the situation, the Chinese side of Huawei’s team quickly coordinates the site construction of the engineer. All the Chinese members of the project team live and stay at the project site. After three days and four nights of continuous fighting, the project team finally completed ahead of schedule. In the process, the local staff in Africa did not agree with the Chinese staff, and there was a difference in job understanding. There are many similar examples, overnight overtime, sick work, holiday office, prayer day on business, and so on. These differences in understanding are a huge challenge for Chinese employees in Huawei and local staff in Africa in terms of human resources management. Also, many countries in Africa are free to organize trade unions, the labor union is very powerful, and at the same time the local government also will intervene when the trade union intervenes, often the trivial matter is very serious in the trade union's view. The enterprises invested by Huawei in Africa have just begun to have a sense of social integrity and lack of awareness of social responsibility, resulting in a lot of labor disputes, and the negative impact on the local resources