Leader mistreatment, employee hostility, and deviant behaviors: Integrating self-uncertainty and thwarted needs perspectives on deviance

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-40

  Mayer, David M ^a   Thau, Stefan ^b   Workman, Kristina M ^a   Dijke, Marius Van ^c   Cremer, David De ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competence; Deviance; Leadership; Self; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855651691     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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