Team-Oriented leadership: The interactive effects of leader group prototypicality, accountability, and team identification

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 658-667

  Giessner, Steffen R ^a   van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   van Ginkel, Wendy ^a   Sleebos, Ed ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accountability; Group prototypicality; Identification; Leadership; Team oriented behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880446181     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032445     Document Type: Article

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