Leadership and solidarity behaviour: Consensus in perception of employees within teams

Personnel Review

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 538-556

  Sanders, Karin ^a   Schyns, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Employee behaviour; Leadership; Team management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748319391     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480610682280     Document Type: Article

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