Mentoring and Coaching

This project is segmented into two thematic areas and will complement the P4.104 Leadership Project and P4.111 Skills Recognition Project by focusing specifically on mentoring and coaching within the rail industry. Essentially, coaching and mentoring systems are HRM-related processes that help address rail organisational and industry specific needs related to the environmental challenges and related risk management strategies facing the rail industry. These challenges relate to growing competition for talent, an increasing intergenerational and diverse workforce, ensuring talent retention and engagement through career pathway development, succession planning, performance management, supervision capacity building, skills recognition and the transfer of tacit knowledge attributed to the retirement of senior baby boomer employees from the industry. The project will initially conduct an environmental scan across the industry on current mentoring and coaching activities along with an extensive literature review on contemporary mentoring and coaching research and practice. The project will then conduct concurrent research projects based on these two distinct areas of practice: mentoring and coaching.