Leaders' emotional expressiveness and their behavioural and relational authenticity: Effects on followers

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-14

  Ilies, Remus ^a   Curşeu, Petru L ^b   Dimotakis, Nikolaos ^c   Spitzmuller, Matthias ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Emotional expressiveness; Emotions; Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872582477     PISSN: 1359432X     EISSN: 14640643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2011.626199     Document Type: Article

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