Personality and Leadership Developmental Levels as predictors of leader performance

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 421-433

  Strang, Sarah E ^a   Kuhnert, Karl W ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

360 degree feedback; Big Five personality; Constructive developmental theory; Leader performance; Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349239644     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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