Beware the angry leader: Trait anger and trait anxiety as predictors of petty tyranny

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-124

  Kant, Leo ^a,b   Skogstad, Anders ^a   Torsheim, Torbjørn ^a   Einarsen, Ståle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Falck Nutec AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Abusive supervision; Petty tyranny; Temperamental goodness of fit; Trait anger; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872408086     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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