MA, PhD

Deputy Head of Department - Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour and Tourism
Senior Lecturer

Location: Lord Ashcroft Building Cambridge
Room: LAB 322

UK: 0845 196 5681
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 5681
Email: christine.menges@anglia.ac.uk

Dr Christine Menges is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Cambridge campus. She holds a MA in Management and Public Policy (University of Konstanz, Germany) and a PhD in Management (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland).

Dr Menges has worked as a consultant for private and public organisations and as a mentoring programme manager and trainer. She initiated and developed mentoring programmes for various institutions and evaluated companies' international training and development activities.

She was previously a research associate at the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and a post-doctoral researcher for the ESRC-funded project 'Developing skills for government: Political mentoring' at the Centre for Performance at Work at City University London.

Dr Menges' research focuses on mentoring in business as well as in the educational and political sector. In particular, she is interested in the selection and matching process of formal mentoring programmes. She uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to address her research questions. As part of her doctoral thesis 'The Perfect Match - The Impact of Mentor and Mentee Similarity in Formal Alumni-Student Mentoring Relationships', she constructed and distributed online surveys, and obtained and analyzed data of more than 150 mentor-mentee pairs. She tested for interaction effects among mentees and mentors through the application of multivariate statistical procedures. The results showed that deep-level rather than surface-level similarity among mentor and mentee is of crucial importance for the success of mentoring relationships.

Upon completion of her PhD, she joined the Centre for Performance at Work at City University, London. She organised, conducted and analysed over 60 interviews with politicians throughout the United Kingdom, constructed an online questionnaire, and created best practice guidelines as well as an online toolkit for political mentoring.

Dr Menges has taught several courses aimed at both undergraduate and graduate students. Prior to joining Lord Ashcroft International Business School, she held teaching positions at the University of Konstanz, Germany, the University of Applied Science in Winterthur, Switzerland, the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and BPP University college, London. She covers a wide array of management topics, including organisational behaviour, international management, as well as topics relating to professional training, including academic writing and self-reflection.

Publications

Silvester, J., Menges, C., 2011. The Political Mentoring Toolkit. London: City University.

Menges, C., 2009. The Perfect Match - The Impact of Mentor and Mentee Similarity in Formal Alumni-Student Mentoring Relationships. Bamberg: Difo-Druck.


Presentations

Silvester, J., Konstantinou, E., Menges, C., 2011. Developing Political Leaders: Mentoring for politicians. Paper presented at Institute of Work Psychology (IWP) Conference, Sheffield, UK.

Menges, C., 2010. Birds of a feather should flock together: Mentoring partners' deep-level similarity matters. Paper presentated at the Academy of Management Conference, Montréal, Canada.

Menges, C., 2009. Satisfaction with Mentoring: Does Mentor's and Mentee's Personality Matter? Paper presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, USA.

Menges, C., 2008. Best Practices in Mentoring. Paper presented at the German-Austrian-Swiss Lake of Constanze Mentoring Conference, Konstanz, Germany.

Menges, C., 2006. Mentoring: Win-Win Situation für alle [Mentoring: A Win-Win Situation for all]. Paper presented at the FHS Wirtschaft, St. Gallen, Switzerland.


Peer Review

Ad-Hoc Reviewer for Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2010-present

Reviewer for Academy of Management Conference, 2009-present