Motivating and Demotivating Forces in Teams: Cross-Level Influences of Empowering Leadership and Relationship Conflict

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 541-557

  Chen, Gilad ^a   Sharma, Payal Nangia ^a   Edinger, Suzanne K ^a   Shapiro, Debra L ^a   Farh, Jiing Lih ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Conflict; Motivation; Multilevel; Work teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955599705     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021886     Document Type: Article

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