Differential effects of empowering leadership on in-role and extra-role employee behaviors: Exploring the role of psychological empowerment and power values

Human Relations

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1743-1770

  Raub, Steffen ^a   Robert, Christopher ^b  

^a Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

empowering leadership; extra role behaviors; helping; organizational citizenship behavior; power values; psychological empowerment; service industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049474535     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726710365092     Document Type: Article

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