Relative deprivation among employees in lower-quality leader-member exchange relationships

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 276-286

  Bolino, Mark C ^a   Turnley, William H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Leader member exchange; Relative deprivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349285358     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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