Ethical leadership: psychometric properties of a German adaptation of Brown et al. (2005) Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS-D);Ethische führung - Gütekriterien einer deutschen adaptation der ethical leadership scale (els-d) von brown et al. (2005)

Zeitschrift fur Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 57-69

  Rowold, Jens ^a   Borgmann, Lars ^a   Heinitz, Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Commitment; Ethical leadership; Job satisfaction; Leadership styles; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649541014     PISSN: 09324089     EISSN: 21906270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026/0932-4089.53.2.57     Document Type: Article

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