How distributed leadership can make a difference in teachers' organizational commitment? A qualitative study

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 565-575

  Hulpia, Hester ^a   Devos, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distributed leadership; Organizational commitment; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349123823     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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