LMX, coaching attributions, and employee performance

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 466-498

  Sue Chan, Christina ^a   Chen, Ziguang ^a   Lam, Wing ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

coaching attributions; leader member exchange; objective job performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960146393     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601111408896     Document Type: Article

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