How to identify leadership potential: Development and testing of a consensus model

Human Resource Management

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 361-385

  Dries, Nicky ^a   Pepermans, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Interrater consensus; Interrater dissensus; Leadership development; Leadership potential; Multidimensional scaling (MDS); Q sorts; Talent management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861525025     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21473     Document Type: Article

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