Do leaders reap what they sow? Leader and employee outcomes of leader organizational cynicism about change

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 680-688

  Rubin, Robert S ^a   Dierdorff, Erich C ^a   Bommer, William H ^b   Baldwin, Timothy T ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cynicism; Cynicism about organizational change; Leader attitudes; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 69349097143     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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