A relational analysis between mentorship and Akhi organisation

Mentorship is an agreement between two people who share their experiences, expertise and thoughts in order to promote personal and professional development. Concurrently, mentorship is a relation of cooperating and sharing which aims at education, learning and development. Within this relationship, the mentor endeavours and devotes time to help a less experienced person in knowledge and skill development. In this way, the mentor increases the other person's productivity and achievement. The person receiving help shapes his personal and professional development by actively making use of mentor's ideas and experiences. Mentorship, which is nowadays considered a professional and career development method and which can be accepted as one of the most ancient personal development methods, is also seen in the Akhi organisation. In the Akhi organisation, promotion in hierarchically-organised occupational degrees is conditioned to some circumstances. Promoting from assistantship to apprenticeship and then becoming a foreman and finally a master was enabled by the master's devoting time and labouring over in order to share their knowledge and skills. This research has been conducted with relation analysis method, which is one of the content analysis types. The aim is to arrive to a relational analysis between mentorship, which could be thought as somehow a master-apprentice relation, and occupational education approach – master-apprentice education- seen in the Akhi organisation. Hence, the titles are created in accordance with the potential relational issues as a result of the literature review related to mentorship and the Akhi organisation. It is anticipated that the demonstration of the relational analyses between these two concepts could contribute to the theoretical literature.