This study examined the relationship between career mentoring and work engagement from the mentor perspective, by estimating work meaningfulness as a mediator. The research model used quantitative survey data from 309 employees who mentored their junior colleagues in the on-the-job training programmes of Japanese companies. The results demonstrated that career mentoring had an indirect effect on the work engagement of mentors by enhancing the psychological meaningfulness of their work. In addition, learning goal orientation positively influenced career mentoring; this may subsequently facilitate the work engagement by increasing the perception of the meaning of work. Learning-oriented individuals who act as mentors find psychological meaningfulness in their work, which in turn enhances their work engagement. By setting acceptable meaningful goals for mentoring programmes, practitioners can minimize the negative outcomes of mentoring. The results contribute to the existing literature by examining how mentoring experiences affect the behaviour of mentors.

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指导对工作投入的影响：作为调解人的工作意义

这项研究通过评估作为中介者的工作意义，从导师的角度考察了职业指导与工作投入之间的关系。该研究模型使用了来自309名员工的定量调查数据，这些员工在日本公司的在职培训计划中指导了其下级同事。结果表明，职业指导通过增强导师的工作心理意义，对导师的工作投入有间接影响。另外，学习目标取向对职业指导产生积极影响。这样可以通过增加对工作意义的理解来促进工作参与。充当导师的学习型个人在工作中发现了心理上的意义，反过来又增强了他们的工作投入。通过为指导计划设定可接受的有意义的目标，从业人员可以最大程度地减少指导的负面结果。通过研究指导经验如何影响指导者的行为，研究结果为现有文献做出了贡献。