The Potential of Managerial Coaching for Employee Effectiveness:A Brief Review

Managerial coaching is emerging as a very critical tool to create competitive advantage for organizations by improving employee and organizational performance. The objective of this paper is to review extant literature on managerial coaching and based on it, suggest directions for future research. We discuss the relevance of coaching as a practice for creating individual and organizational effectiveness, where the concept of coaching is distinguished from other related concepts like counseling-therapy and mentoring. Subsequently, the various processes and measurements of managerial coaching are reviewed for their relevance in organizations. The paper further examines the outcomes of managerial coaching at the employee and organizational levels. Drawing conclusions from the review, we suggest two critical areas of future research:work engagement and self efficacy, which can enable organizations to increase the effectiveness of managerial coaching.