The mediating role of feedback avoidance behavior in the LMX-performance relationship

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 645-664

  Moss, Sherry E ^a   Sanchez, Juan I ^b   Brumbaugh, Anne M ^c   Borkowski, Nancy ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c School of Business and Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback avoiding behavior; Job performance; Leader member exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 70949105554     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601109350986     Document Type: Article

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