Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: OCB-Specific Meanings as Mediators

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-25

  Jiao, Changquan ^a   Richards, David A ^a   Zhang, Kai ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Renmin Business School   (China)

Author keywords

Contingent reward leadership; Individual instrumentality; Organizational citizenship behavior; Organizational instrumentality; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551630137     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-010-9168-3     Document Type: Article

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