Leaders' relational self-concept and followers' task performance: Implications for mentoring provided to followers

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 766-774

  Lapierre, Laurent M ^a   Naidoo, Loren J ^b   Bonaccio, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Follower; Leader; Mentoring; Performance; Relational self concept

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865068672     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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