Due to globalization economics, manufacturing industry in Taiwan face more serious competition nowadays, leading to the increasing emphasis on employee’s personal learning. While a range of topics have been studies in mentoring, few studies focused on how mentoring applied in personal learning at workplace. Therefore, understanding the application of mentoring that may facilitate employee’s personal learning may provide useful insight to not only development of mentor and protégé, but also development of organization. This study aimed to understand how application of mentoring facilitates employees’ personal learning through exploring and examining employees’ personal learning of working in Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. In this study, the employees who work in manufacturing firms of Changhua Coastal Industrial Park were the research participants. This study adopted qualitative approach and collected data through in-depth interview and participant observation for enhancing the credibility of the research. Finally, this study found mentoring implementation could enhance personal learning of employees in manufacturing firms; especially protégé could learn relational job learning and personal skill development through interactoin with mentor. This study figured out main steps for mentoring interaction which could be reference for manufacturing firms while implementing mentoring in practice. The result of study also could be reference for future studies which are focusing on mentoring application in manufacturing industry.

Due to globalization economics, manufacturing industry in Taiwan face more serious competition nowadays, leading to the increasing emphasis on employee’s personal learning. While a range of topics have been studies in mentoring, few studies focused on how mentoring applied in personal learning at workplace. Therefore, understanding the application of mentoring that may facilitate employee’s personal learning may provide useful insight to not only development of mentor and protégé, but also development of organization. This study aimed to understand how application of mentoring facilitates employees’ personal learning through exploring and examining employees’ personal learning of working in Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. In this study, the employees who work in manufacturing firms of Changhua Coastal Industrial Park were the research participants. This study adopted qualitative approach and collected data through in-depth interview and participant observation for enhancing the credibility of the research. Finally, this study found mentoring implementation could enhance personal learning of employees in manufacturing firms; especially protégé could learn relational job learning and personal skill development through interactoin with mentor. This study figured out main steps for mentoring interaction which could be reference for manufacturing firms while implementing mentoring in practice. The result of study also could be reference for future studies which are focusing on mentoring application in manufacturing industry.

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