Developing leadership competence of production unit managers

Journal of Management Development

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 312-330

  Rappe, Christoph ^a   Zwick, Thomas ^b  

^a MAXment   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous work groups; Competences; Germany; Leadership; Line managers; Management development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247137294     PISSN: 02621711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02621710710740084     Document Type: Article

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