Management of Cooperative Behavior in the Organization:

The Effect of Job Design on Mentoring Behaviors and Prosocial Motivation

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to focus on spontaneous mentoring behavior of individuals and to examine the psychological mechanism and contextual factors behind such behavior. Formal programs adopted by many organizations to manage mentoring behavior have posed various problems. As an alternative, however, we focus on job design among the contextual factors and examine the relationship between job design, mentoring behavior and prosocial motivation.