Leading to a Healthy Workplace

Employee Well-Being Support: A Workplace Resource

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-38

  Kelloway, E Kevin ^a,b   Teed, Mike ^a   Prosser, Matt ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bad or passive leadership; Leadership and healthy workplace; Organisational leadership and job stress; Positive leadership behaviors; Transformational leadership and transformational leaders

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649698797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773246.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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