Everyone knows the term of the mentor, in particular from law offices or similar. What is meant here is the relationship between a new employee and an old-established employee. The experienced employee helps his young new colleague to settle in his new job and supports him with advice with respect to available organizational structures and rites within the company. Thus, mentoring serves for facilitating the entry into a company and helps to directly make use of valuable energies of the new employee.
However, here it becomes clear as well that mentoring is not just a partnership balance, but that the new employee stands far under the old employee. Unlike coaching, one cannot talk about neutrality here either since the company