'it's good to be angry': Enacting anger in construction project management to achieve perceived leader effectiveness

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 437-458

  Lindebaum, Dirk ^a   Fielden, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anger; construction industry; context; leadership; performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952266781     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726710381149     Document Type: Article

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