Covers the design, implementation, evaluation and revitalization of mentoring schemes. This work enables readers to understand mentoring and to create programs. It establishes a tenable case for mentoring that assists readers in promoting programs within their organization. It also includes real-life case studies from British American Tobacco. '...highly structured book, written primarily for those responsible for designing and implementing a mentoring scheme ... gets to the core of why mentoring is a worthwhile activity.'Claire Marchbank - People Management, March 2002'The application of mentoring schemes has sharply increased over the past decade, primarily because organisations recognise the benefits they provide to both the individual and organisation. What has been lacking is both the hands-on guidance and the evidence of best practice that this book provides.........deserves a place on all professional HRM and trainers' book shelvesTraining Journal 2002