Leader trust and employee voice: The moderating role of empowering leader behaviors

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 787-798

  Gao, Liping ^a,b   Janssen, Onne ^a   Shi, Kan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Employee voice; Empowering leader behaviors; Leader trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960471591     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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