Leaders Leading Networked Mentoring: A New Language of Leadership in the Era of Knowledge

Abstract

The aim of this study is to present a general bibliometric analysis for the main key-words of my research topic. We are living in The Era of Emerging Knowledge, where the 4th Industry revolution is taking place, and the evolving of knowledge and technologies are so frequent that the ability to change and be current is a necessity. Managers and employees must cope with uncertainty and adapt quickly to rapid changes. Mentoring programs are an organizational mechanism for developing professional identity. Despite the leader’s significant role as a mentor and a developer to his subordinates, no leadership studies have been found to have combined the evolving knowledge of mentoring and developmental networks. In this study, I will analyze the knowledge from those disciplines, trying to combine them into a whole complex that offers a leadership style, leading to the existence of developmental networks – the networking leader.

Keywords

• mentoring
• developmental network
• leadership
• complexity leadership