Teachers' personal and team empowerment and their relations to organizational outcomes: Contradictory or compatible constructs?

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 237-266

  Somech, Anit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Organizational commitment; Performance; Personal empowerment; Professional commitment; Team empowerment

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844425475     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X04269592     Document Type: Article

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