Age-Based Faultlines and Perceived Productive Energy: The Moderation of Transformational Leadership

Small Group Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 593-620

  Kunze, Florian ^a   Bruch, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

demographic change; faultlines; moderation; productive energy; team; transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956865322     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496410366307     Document Type: Article

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