HIT Corp. has developed a mentorship program for its managers and is encouraging them to serve functions, including coaching others to help them develop skills, acting as sounding boards for ideas, and counselling others to bolster their self-confidence. What other activities are generally included in a mentorship program?
a. The manager is paired with a promising employee and encouraged to develop a personal relationship with the employee outside of work.
b. Identify a less experienced, lower-level employee who appears to have potential for future development
c. The manager is assigned to the protege as their exclusive responsibility for a period of weeks to help indoctrinate the newly hired employee into the corporate entity
d. The manager is requested to go through a training program paired with the protege to ease the employee's transition into the company
e. The manager is assigned as a "trainer" and made responsible for all new employees. It is the training manager who selects the manager with whom each protege will be paired