On angry leaders and agreeable followers: How leaders' emotions and followers' personalities shape motivation and team performance

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1827-1834

  van Kleef, Gerben A ^a   Homan, Astrid C ^b   Beersma, Bianca ^a   van Knippenberg, Daan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agreeableness; anger; emotion; happiness; leadership; social effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650396119     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610387438     Document Type: Article

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