Effects of organizational values on leaders' use of informational power to affect performance in china

Group Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 152-167

  Tjosvold, Dean ^a   Coleman, Peter T ^b   Sun, Haifa F ^c  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHINA; COMPETITION; COOPERATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION; MANPOWER; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZATION; RESEARCH; SOCIETY; STUDENT; TEAMWORK;

EID: 0037831116     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.7.2.152     Document Type: Article

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