Do "protean" employees make better leaders? The answer is in the eye of the beholder

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 783-795

  Briscoe, Jon P ^a   Hoobler, Jenny M ^b   Byle, Kevin A ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c GEICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Career development; Leadership development; Protean career; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958171396     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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