Leader Self and Means Efficacy: A multi-component approach

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-161

  Hannah, Sean T ^a   Avolio, Bruce J ^b   Walumbwa, Fred O ^c   Chan, Adrian ^d  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Ministry of Defence Government of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Agency; Leader self efficacy; Leadership; Means efficacy; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860999394     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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