The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of mentoring on protégés’ organizational deviance. The sample comprised 202 ongoing formal mentoring dyads in the People’s Republic of China (mentor samples: 61.9% male, M age=36.8 years; protégé samples: 57.4% male, M age=25.0 years). The regression results showed that mentoring was negatively related to protégés’ organizational deviance. Moreover, job embeddedness and organizational identification mediated the association between mentoring and protégés’ organizational devi...
