This study examines the effects of mentoring and organizational justice on auditors' relationships with their non-mentor supervisors. Having a mentor is expected to result in higher quality relationships between protégé auditors and their non-mentor supervisor. However, organizational justice perceptions are expected to mediate this mentoring association such that having a mentor results in higher procedural justice perceptions, and these higher perceptions of justice result in higher quality

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... lationships between protégés and their non-mentor supervisors. A survey of 110 audit professionals shows that protégés report higher quality auditorsupervisor relationships than do non-protégés. As expected, organizational justice mediates this relationship. Protégés report higher organizational justice (procedural justice) perceptions which produce higher quality auditor-supervisor relationships with non-mentor supervisors. Additional analysis shows that only the psychosocial support function of mentoring relates to higher organizational justice perceptions and higher auditor-supervisor relationship ratings. These results extend the findings in Siegel et al. (2001).