Servant leadership, organizational identification, and work-to-family enrichment: The moderating role of work climate for sharing family concerns

Human Resource Management

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 747-767

  Zhang, Haina ^a   Kwong Kwan, Ho ^b   Everett, André M ^c,d   Jian, Zhaoquan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d Central China University of Science and Technology   (China)

^e SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Organizational identification; Servant leadership; Work family climate; Work to family enrichment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866786309     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21498     Document Type: Article

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