Linking leader behavior and leadership consensus to team performance: Integrating direct consensus and dispersion models of group composition

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 383-398

  Cole, Michael S ^a   Bedeian, Arthur G ^b   Bruch, Heike ^c  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Consensus constructs; Dispersion model of leadership; Team empowerment; Team performance; Transformational and contingent reward leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955476334     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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