The relationship between personality and leadership preferences

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 70-91

  Moss, Simon A ^a   Ngu, Simon ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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