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Balmer Lawrie: Developing and Scaling Up an Effective and Sustainable Mentorship Program

Atul Arun Pathak, Ashis Sen

Product #:W37095
Supplier:Ivey/IIM-Nagpur
Discipline:General Management, Human Resource Management
Setting:India, 2022
Details:Case (PDF) • 14 pages • 2024-06-13

Subjects:

Organizational cultureOrganizational behaviorManagement

Industries:

Fabrication and manufacturing

Geography:

AsiaIndia
Your Price:$10.54

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In September 2022, Balmer Lawrie & Co Ltd., a highly diversified Indian public-sector enterprise, was reviewing the outcomes of its mentorship program, which had been launched as a pilot initiative about a year earlier. The company had hired an external consultant to help design and speedily launch the first offering of the mentorship program, enrolling 25 mentor-mentee pairs. Now, it needed to refine the program, strengthen the measurement of its benefits, and plan a scaled-up rollout across the organization. The company aimed to make the mentorship initiative a long-term, self-sustaining program.

Learning Objectives

This case is suitable for use in a master of business administration (MBA) or other graduate-level management program. It can be useful in courses on human resource management, career development, and mentorship. It can also be used in executive education and training programs for organizational leaders, general managers, and human resource (HR) managers to create awareness of the organizational benefits of mentorship programs. It helps participants understand the concept of mentorship and how the learning from a pilot project can be systematically leveraged to scale up mentorship initiatives across a large and highly diversified organization. Through this case, participants will learn to do the following:
  • Explain the importance of mentorship initiatives.
  • Describe how mentoring can contribute toward building an organization’s knowledge base.
  • Explain how organizations can build leadership capabilities through mentorship assignments.
  • Identify the challenges involved in designing and rolling out mentorship programs.
  • Describe the role of leadership and human resource policies in mentorship programs.
  • Explain how to ensure a successful organization-wide scale-up of a pilot mentorship initiative.
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