Leadership style profiles of middlelevel managers in social and health care

Leadership in Health Services

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 108-120

  Viitanen, Elina ^a   Konu, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Health services; Leadership; Middle managers; Social care

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649136472     PISSN: 17511879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17511870910953779     Document Type: Article

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