Relative leader-member exchange, negative affectivity and social identification: A moderated-mediation examination

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 354-366

  Tse, Herman H M ^a   Ashkanasy, Neal M ^b   Dasborough, Marie T ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Negative affectivity (NA); Relative leader member exchange (RLMX); Social identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860323207     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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