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Mentoring as a Tool for Strengthening Management Competences

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Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyze the effect of using mentoring as a tool to strengthen managerial skills, for which this research was quantitative, quasi-experimental and with a pretest–posttest design. The results show that the use of mentoring in the teaching–learning process to strengthen managerial competencies fosters a significant increase in the evaluated competencies, being an ideal tool to achieve established goals, finding a high effect size, therefore which suggests its use in educational and organizational scenarios to contribute to the key aspects of said spaces.

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  1. Universidad de la Costa CUC, Barranquilla, Colombia

    Mónica Acuña Rodríguez, Yeferson Gómez López, Grace Rocha Herrera, María José Navarro Romero, Samir F. Umaña Ibáñez & Jairo Coronado Hernández

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    Gustavo Gatica

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Rodríguez, M.A. et al. (2023). Mentoring as a Tool for Strengthening Management Competences. In: Mesquita, A., Abreu, A., Carvalho, J.V., Santana, C., de Mello, C.H.P. (eds) Perspectives and Trends in Education and Technology. ICITED 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 366. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5414-8_10

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