Leadership style and organizational commitment: Mediating effect of role stress

Journal of Managerial Issues

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-130

  Dale, Kathleen ^a   Fox, Marilyn L ^a  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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