The Authentic Leadership Inventory (ALI): Development and empirical tests

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1146-1164

  Neider, Linda L ^a   Schriesheim, Chester A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentic leadership; Authentic Leadership Inventory; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955163221     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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