How low does ethical leadership flow? Test of a trickle-down model

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Mayer, David M ^a   Kuenzi, Maribeth ^b   Greenbaum, Rebecca ^a   Bardes, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bombie)   (United States)

Author keywords

Deviance; Ethics; Leadership; OCB

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249090436     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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