An empirical study of the relationship between three components of paternalistic leadership and workplace bullying: The case of an Iranian bank

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1814-1821

  Esfahani, Ali Nasr ^a   Shahbazi, Gholamreza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Authoritarian leadership; Benevolent leadership; Moral leadership; Paternalistic leadership; Workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878948280     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.22.12.45     Document Type: Article

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