Implanting pygmalion leadership style through workshop training: Seven field experiments

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-210

  Eden, Dov ^a   Geller, Dvorah ^a   Gewirtz, Abigail ^a   Gordon Terner, Ranit ^a   Inbar, Irit ^a   Liberman, Moti ^a   Pass, Yaffa ^a   Salomon Segev, Iris ^a   Shalit, Moriah ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0042527839     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1048-9843(00)00042-4     Document Type: Article

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