Leader-member exchange as a moderator of the relationship between work group diversity and team performance

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 507-535

  Stewart, Marcus M ^a   Johnson, Olenda E ^b  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leader member exchange (LMX); Team performance; Workgroup diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350504435     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601108331220     Document Type: Article

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