The relation between school leadership from a distributed perspective and teachers' organizational commitment: Examining the source of the leadership function

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 728-771

  Hulpia, Hester ^a   Devos, Geert ^a   van Keer, Hilde ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

distributed leadership; hierarchical linear modeling; organizational commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355129268     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X11402065     Document Type: Article

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