Followers' attachment styles and their preference for social or for personal charismatic leaders

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 458-472

  Shalit, Alon ^a   Popper, Micha ^b   Zakay, Dan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Leadership; Performance management; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956087386     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437731011056461     Document Type: Article

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