The assessment of charismatic leadership validity of a German version of the Conger-Kanungo Scale (CKS)

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 124-130

  Rowold, Jens ^a   Kersting, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charismatic leadership; Conger Kanungo Scale of charismatic leadership; Psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149104391     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759.24.2.124     Document Type: Article

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