Organizational and supervisory justice effects on experienced threat during change: The moderating role of leader in-group representativeness

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 595-607

  Koivisto, Satu ^a   Lipponen, Jukka ^a   Platow, Michael J ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leader in group prototypicality; Organizational justice; Social identity; Supervisory justice; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880758882     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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