Primary principals' leadership styles, school organizational health and workplace bullying

Journal of Educational Administration

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 495-512

  Cemaloǧlu, Necati ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Organizational health; Primary schools; School principals; Transactional leadership; Transformational leadership; Turkey; Workplace bullying; Workplace mobbing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052584703     PISSN: 09578234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09578231111159511     Document Type: Article

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