The empowering leadership questionnaire: The construction and validation of a new scale for measuring leader behaviors

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 249-269

  Arnold, Josh A ^a   Arad, Sharon ^b   Rhoades, Jonathan A ^c   Drasgow, Fritz ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pers Decisions Research Institutes   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0034178419     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(200005)21:3<249::aid-job10>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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