Leadership and learning climate in a work setting

European Psychologist

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 163-173

  Hetland, Hilde ^a   Skogstad, Anders ^a   Hetland, Jørn ^a   Mikkelsen, Aslaug ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Laissez faire leadership; Learning climate; Transformational and passive avoidant leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054089288     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000037     Document Type: Article

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